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We’ll return to the mini-series about the ups and downs of the teacher job market next week. But first, a preview of an upcoming program that is of interest to all this week: “Suicide is preventable.”
Suicide is the leading cause of death among young people.Therefore, the leading cause of death among children and teens is preventable. That’s a fact—and yet we’re losing an increasing number of young people.
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By Steve Kussin
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5/12/11
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Absentee ballots for the election of trustees for the Rockville Centre Union Free School District Board of Education and the Rockville Centre Library Board of Trustees for the school district and …
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5/4/11
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Speaking at the end of last week’s Board of Education meeting, school board Vice President Stephen Kriss cited “personal reasons” to explain why he will not seek re-election to the board. In a …
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5/4/11
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Forty-eight South Side High School students participated in a three-on- three basketball tournament, organized by Conor Semple and Mike Falchiere, to raise funds for their fellow classmates in the CORE special education program.
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4/13/11
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Randi Weingarten, former president of the United Federation of Teachers, now head of the American Federation of Teachers, recently delivered a speech titled, “Towards a True Development and Evaluation System.” She was being proactive by presenting her own plan in response to recent calls for revamping teacher assessment and tenure.
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By Steve Kussin
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3/17/11
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The New York Times reported last week that three-quarters of the 17,500 freshman at City University of New York’s six community colleges require remedial classes in reading and writing and math.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/11
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Thanks to a grant from the Rockville Centre Education Foundation, third graders at Wilson Elementary School enjoyed growing plants that they could eat!
Working last fall with a Master Gardener, …
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3/9/11
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On April 19, 1969, members of Cornell University’s Afro-American Society occupied Willard Straight Hall on the Ithaca campus to protest a litany of perceived racial injustices after a cross was burned outside Wari House, a cooperative for African-American female students. During the occupation, AAS members smuggled in rifles and bandoliers of ammunition.
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By Scott Brinton
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3/2/11
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On Feb. 1, Governor Cuomo delivered his first budget address. It was a no-holds-barred speech in which he admitted that years of dysfunction and mismanagement has driven our state into “functional bankruptcy.”
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by Al D'Amato
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2/11/11
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A group of local dentists volunteered last week to help get kids on their way to building healthy teeth.
Seventy-five dentists from the Nassau County Dental Society, with the help of …
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by Mike Caputo
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2/9/11
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