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Liz Dion and Kelly Barry will run uncontested in this year’s school board election, Board of Education president John O’Shea announced during a budget meeting at South Side High School on Monday.
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By Ben Strack
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4/19/18
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“Our budget is not balanced, and we still have a lot of work to do,” said Robert Bartels, assistant superintendent of business and personnel, at Rockville Centre’s Board of Education meeting on March 14.
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By Ben Strack
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3/22/18
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Two months before the Rockville Centre Education Foundation hosts its annual gala to raise money for classroom grants in all seven of the district’s schools, teachers are beginning to think up new programs for next year.
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By Ben Strack
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2/15/18
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Watching a human heart beat up close is an experience reserved for cardiovascular surgeons, and to hold one in your hand sounds like something out of an Edgar Allan Poe poem. Yet at South Side High School in Rockville Centre, students can virtually grab a beating heart from a screen and pull it toward them, examining it from all angles, as vibrations — simulating blood pumping to vital organs — pulse through a stylus and into their hand.“If you put your face slowly into the heart,” teacher Chris D’Ambrosio said, smiling, “you’ll see the inside.”
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By Ben Strack
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1/5/18
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Part five in the series “Educating the 21st Century Child.”Mepham High School broadcast teacher Stu Stein often holds class in the dark, and with virtually every surface in his …
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By Scott Brinton
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12/22/17
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Students still read textbooks and jot notes in paper binders today, but technology reigns supreme in most all Long Island schools and in most all grades, from kindergarten through high school.
How teachers apply that technology and how students learn to use the high-tech devices at their disposal will, no doubt, have a profound effect on education — and the work world of the future.
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By Jeff Bessen
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11/22/17
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In the remarkable 2014 film “Whiplash,” J.K. Simmons plays Terence Fletcher, a maniacal music professor at an elite East Coast conservatory bent on producing the next truly great jazz musician . . .
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9/21/17
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With a new school year around the corner, the Rockville Centre School District will be expanding its offerings to students of all ages throughout its seven buildings.
With help from the Rockville Centre Education Foundation, which donated $68,000 to the district in June to fund 15 initiatives for the coming year, students will have the opportunity to broaden their academic horizons.
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By Ben Strack
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9/12/17
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More Rockville Centre students in grades three through eight were proficient on the 2017 state English language arts and math assessments compared to last year, as they once again scored …
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By Zach Gottehrer-Cohen
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9/11/17
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New York state has some of the nation’s best schools, and some of the worst. Many suburban schools are considered models of learning . . .
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8/31/17
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