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More than a dozen students presented reports at a final emergency management meeting after a mock hurricane drill.
High-schoolers take over the Town of Hempstead
Michelle Hauser, 17, recalls driving through the Superstorm Sandy–ravaged sections of her hometown of Oceanside 19 months ago. She explained that she remembers asking her father why construction workers from California and Arkansas were repairing utility poles in the neighborhood, but he didn’t know the answer. more
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In "Thespis," Gilbert and Sullivan's lighthearted spoof, a troupe of actors make their way to Mount Olympus.
"Thespis" makes its Long Island debut this weekend
The Gilbert & Sullivan Light Opera Company of Long Island welcomes summer with “Thespis” or “The Gods Grown Old.” more
Let's give graduates some debt relief
As students throughout our nation and here on Long Island graduate from college, they hope to start the next phase of their lives gainfully employed. more
Sacred Heart students Mia Campbell, far left, Sarah Tanchuck, Nicole Cody, Samantha Levano, Cassidy Pinder and Olayemi Akingboye, who gathered at the Not On Our Turf summit at St. Mary Louis Academy in Queens last November, will hold a candlelight vigil for female victims of human trafficking later this month. Kayla Walczyk was not pictured.
Lighting the way for women’s empowerment
With Women’s History Month coming to a close, seven young women at Sacred Heart Academy, an all-girls’ high school in Hempstead, were looking to write their own chapter as they prepared … more
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Our schoolchildren are seeing tests in their sleep
Almost every one of us has had the experience of watching a child, a grandchild or the children of friends suffer through the anxiety of continuous tests at every level of the educational ladder. more
Rich school, poor school
On Dec. 3, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development released results of the 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment, a set of three tests — in literacy, science and math — which is given every three years to 15-year-olds in 65 nations. more
Poverty — the story of us all
The year was 1994. Nassau County was supposed to have built a park with a soccer field, a basketball court and picnic tables at the Five Towns Community Center in the mid-1970s, but for two decades, plans for the project languished. more
The East Meadow School District welcomed students back on Sept. 4, and fourth-grader Lauren Villa was one of many happy students to return to Bowling Green Elementary School for her first day.
East Meadow students return to school
The first day of school is always a special one, as students reunite with their classmates and prepare for another year. It also marks the first ever day of school for hundreds of kindergarteners. more
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Advice for new college students from not-so-new college students
Long Island’s high schools have finished honoring the members of the class of 2013, and many of those newly minted graduates are now looking toward college in the fall. more
A tale of two schools, 3,000 miles apart
By my rough calculations, our children spend some 17,640 hours in school, kindergarten through high school. more
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