For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . .
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9/15/16
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Susan Knors’ 15-year tenure as the principal of Baldwin High School ended on June 24, when she left the podium after giving her final farewell speech to the graduates.
She left with mixed …
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By Nakeem Grant
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7/12/16
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Baldwin residents packed into the middle school auditorium on June 8 for the first Board of Education meeting since the district hired Caterina Lafergola, the controversial former principal of …
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By Steve Smirti
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6/15/16
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In its final report, issued Dec. 10, Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s Common Core Task Force called on the state to place a four-year moratorium on the use of students’ state test scores to evaluate …
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By Scott Brinton
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12/16/15
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I want to enumerate the many reasons I’m so against making test scores count for 50 percent of the ratings.
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6/24/15
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In a few weeks, Baldwin High School seniors will accept their diplomas and move on to college or begin their working careers. They will take a variety of skills and lessons with them that they learned in Baldwin schools — and they will no doubt remember the educators who made it all possible.
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By Brian Croce
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6/3/15
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After months of wrangling, New York state finally has a budget, and with it come some major changes in the state’s educational system. Among them is the Education Transformation Act, which institutes new practices for recruiting and evaluating teachers, and will affect both the Oceanside and Island Park districts.
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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4/15/15
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For weeks New Yorkers heard rumors that when the state’s budget battles finally ended, teacher performance would be measured more effectively, elected officials would be held to higher ethical standards . . .
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4/9/15
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As the opt-out movement picks up steam ahead of the first round of state assessments for third- through eighth-graders in English Language Arts, the Baldwin Teachers Association isn’t shying away from sharing its feeling about the exams.
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By Brian Croce
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4/8/15
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Now that the State Legislature and Gov. Andrew Cuomo have apparently reached a budget agreement that includes a revised teacher evaluation system, we hope the State Education Department takes the time to create effective and judicious rules . . .
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4/2/15
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