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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.
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3/13/14
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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.
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12/12/13
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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.
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10/3/13
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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.
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6/26/13
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By my rough calculations, our children spend some 17,640 hours in school, kindergarten through high school.
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6/6/13
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The dichotomy between inBloom’s website, featuring photos of smiling elementary-age children seated beside young teachers, tablets in hand, and its seven-page Privacy and Security Policy, full of legalese, could not be more stark.
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5/16/13
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Semifinalists in the prestigious Intel Science Talent Search were announced recently, and, as usual, Long Island came up big in the contest.
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1/24/13
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Among the many temporary casualties of Hurricane Sandy was Long Island’s educational system, with most schools shutting down for a week or longer.
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11/23/12
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Weary homeowners battered by Hurricane Sandy began to trickle into the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s mobile Disaster Recovery Center at Nassau Community College’s Student Union, a red-brick building on the west side of the campus, when it opened last Friday. The center was set up to help homeowners who suffered losses in the massive storm to file for grants that will enable them to rebuild.
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By Scott Brinton
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11/5/12
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Nassau County residents should feel proud that Hofstra University was selected by the Commission on Presidential Debates, for the second consecutive national election, to host last week’s Obama-Romney faceoff.
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10/24/12
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