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Where there are no answers — when you are even afraid of the questions — don’t show up.
That’s apparently the plan drafted by New York’s education commissioner, who cancelled a Long …
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By Howard Schwach
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10/15/13
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Anybody who was born subsequent to 1953 can probably tell you exactly where he or she was when they first heard the news that John F. Kennedy was dead, the victim of an assassin’s bullet while on a …
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By Howard Schwach
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10/9/13
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A few months ago, I spit into a vial all the way up to the black line and sent my spit away to a laboratory in California.
Now, thanks to a new DNA identification program driven by Ancestry.com, …
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By Howard Schwach
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10/8/13
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In its rush to coerce states to adopt the new Common Core standards, the federal government forgot a major step that is always associated with viable educational reform.
Nobody ever bothered to …
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By Howard Schwach
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10/2/13
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A few months ago, I spit into a vial all the way up to the black line and sent my spit away to a laboratory in California.
Now, thanks to a new DNA identification program driven by Ancestry.com, …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/25/13
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Why did your school-age children have to suffer through ten hours of tests and possibly the humiliation of doing badly on those tests?
So that New York State could get more $700 million from the …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/17/13
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What makes a good student?
All teachers know the answer to that question.
Parents who care and who value education.
That might sound like a no-brainer, but my 33 years as a teacher and …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/11/13
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U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan recently said that the Common Core might well prove to be “the single greatest thing to happen to public education in America since Brown versus Board of …
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By Howard Schwach
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9/4/13
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Scores on standardized New York State English Language Arts and mathematics tests dropped dramatically this year in both West Hempstead and Malverne, worrying many parents who fear that their …
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By Howard Schwach
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8/15/13
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From the first moment that I looked at some practice tests for the English Language Arts tests that were given recently, I knew that the kids and their teachers were in trouble.
Let me say first …
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By Howard Schwach
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8/15/13
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