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Our children’s education can’t be all about numbers

Imagine students who can not only grasp the concepts of STEM courses through the diligent application of the scientific method, but also generate original and thought-provoking work in the humanities. more

By Daniel Rehman | 8/31/23

NYSED: Two North Bellmore schools need improvement

The New York State Education Department says two schools in the North Bellmore District need to improve academically, according to new federal guidelines, but school officials say the … more

By Peter Belfiore and Alyssa Seidman | 3/12/20

Terrence Batts conducting the Lawrence High School orchestra in 2015. He said he was kept out of Honors classes as a student in the 1960s and ’70s, despite his clear academic abilities. Many students of color, he said, are automatically placed in lower-track classes, without regard to what he calls “intellectual heft.”

Reshaping class discussion on race and culture

Part three in a series. The New York State Education Department launched a new statewide curriculum in May intended to root out implicit bias and racism in all its forms in the schools while affirming students’ “racial, linguistic and cultural identities.” more

By Jeff Bessen and Briana Bonfiglio | 10/17/19

Here we go again: a new set of learning standards

New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core. more

6/1/17

State must get Common Core right this time

Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time. more

10/13/16

Kalimah Geter, from the New York State Education Department, watched as students from Lisa Drewes’s sixth-grade class brainstormed ideas in small groups.

State Education Department visits North Merrick

Children, teachers and staff members at Harold D. Fayette and Old Mill Road elementary schools welcomed special guests from the New York State Education Department on Sept. 29 after they achieved Reward School status. more

By Stephany Reyes | 10/7/15

Bellmore-Merrick Central District off to ‘a great start’

By all accounts by Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District principals, opening day of school on Sept. 1 went off without a hitch. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/9/15

According to David Seinfeld, the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District assistant superintendent for instruction, roughly two-thirds of Central students opted out of last spring's battery of seventh- and eighth-grade state exams.

Two-thirds of Central District students opt out of state exams

A little under 50 percent of Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District seventh-graders passed the New York State English Language Arts exam and just over 56 percent passed the math test, according to the State Education Department. more

By Scott Brinton | 9/2/15

Common Core — what a mess it is

More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring. more

8/19/15

Four Five Towns area residents are part of a group that is resubmitting an application for a charter school in the Lawrence School District. Atlantic Beach Estates resident Evelyn Gargano attended last year’s charter school public hearing.

Lawrence charter school plans revised

Despite last year’s vehement opposition to a proposed charter school in the Lawrence School District, which forced the applicants to withdraw the application in November, a similar group wants to open a newly named charter, the Lawrence Charter School. The group behind the effort submitted a letter of intent to the State Education Department ahead of the Feb. 10 deadline. more

By Jeff Bessen | 2/18/15

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