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Selling Lesson Plans Online, Teachers Raise Questions

Between Craigslist and eBay, the Internet is well established as a marketplace where one person’s trash is transformed into another’s treasure. Now, thousands of teachers are cashing in on a commodity they used to give away, selling lesson plans online ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  14 Nov 2009

Related Topics: eBay Inc.,  Craigslist.org

New York City a Board Controlled by Bloomberg

New York City is one of only two school systems statewide along with Yonkers with an appointed school board (though there are appointed boards in 13 districts statewide that specifically educate children with special needs). The state handed control ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Panel for Educational Policy,  New York University

Westchester: A Longstanding Practice in Yonkers

New York State has a strong tradition of elected school boards outside the cities; currently, the only appointed boards are in New York City and Yonkers, and in 13 special districts statewide, including seven in Westchester, that specifically educate ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

Long Island: Elected, and Happy to Stay That Way

All 56 districts in Nassau County and 68 of 69 in Suffolk have elected school boards, part of a long tradition across New York State. (Currently the only appointed boards in the state are in New York City and Yonkers, and in 13 districts, including one ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  31 Oct 2009

For Debate: Who Picks School Board

THE hot button in Tuesday’s election in this school-obsessed suburb is not Democrat or Republican, Corzine or Christie, but something closer to home: Who gets to choose the school board? Montclair, whose system of magnet schools has become a national ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  30 Oct 2009

Related Topics: U.S. Democratic Party,  U.S. Republican Party,  League of Women Voters

School for the Gifted, and Only the Gifted

He was 5 months old when he said his first words, and at a year and a half, he knew the alphabet, colors and numbers from 1 to 10. Connie Williams Coulianos, the head of Speyer Legacy School, visiting the kindergarten class. The school has just 26 ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  18 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University,  Harry Belafonte,  Horace Mann

Schools Adopt Art as Building Block of Education

NEW HAVEN, Conn. Math students at the Christopher Columbus Family Academy learn about angles by measuring whimsical figures of hot-air balloons, paper airplanes and pinwheels built right into the walls of their school. Seventh graders figure out ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  1 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Christopher Columbus,  Frank Sinatra

Foreign Languages Fall as Schools Look for Cuts

IN Edgemont, a high-performing Westchester school district, children as young as 7 could recite colors and days of the week in Spanish, but few if any learned to really converse, read or write. So this fall, the district canceled the Spanish lessons ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  14 Sep 2009

Fewer Fliers Sent Home as Schools Put More on Web

COMMACK, N.Y. The back-to-school packets sent to all 7,800 students here in this hamlet on Long Island’s North Shore grew thicker each year with dozens of pages of notices, fliers and forms adding up to more than $12,000 in postage alone last year. ...

From WINNIE HU, The New York Times,  8 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Stephanie Miller,  William Floyd

Bollywood Star’s Questioning at Newark Airport Is Talk of India Day

With adoring fans from New Delhi to New York City, the Bollywood star Shahrukh Khan described by some as the Brad Pitt of India was feted at a reception following the India Day parade in Midtown Manhattan in 2003. On Sunday, Mr. Khan was again the ...

From WINNIE HU, International Herald Tribune,  16 Aug 2009

Related Topics: Shahrukh Khan,  Bollywood,  Brad Pitt,  U.S. Department of Homeland Security

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