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COMMENTARY GUEST EDITORIAL EDUCATION UPDATE Getting to Work Is There One Way to Teach Reading? Mailing Address: By STUART DUNN Phonics? Whole Language? 276 5th Avenue, Suite 1005 With the elections over, Mayor Bloomberg New York, NY 10001 has begun to address the city’s budgetary prob- By SANDRA PRIEST ROSE sion and because inaccurate spelling imprints email: [email protected] lem. While I don’t agree with the particulars of Is there one way to teach reading? Phonics? itself on the brain and is hard to correct. www.educationupdate.com his plans to raise revenues, I do agree that rev- Whole Language? Once the students understand the idea that let- Tel: 212-481-5519 enue increases are needed to prevent disastrous Yes, there is! And this is where all points of ters stand for sounds and these sounds make up Fax: 212-481-3919 reductions in services. This is particularly true view can converge. Everybody can be right. most of the words in our language in a pre- of the public schools. He now must face up to What is at issue is only WHEN you do what. dictable way, and they are at ease sounding out PUBLISHER AND EDITOR: getting the state to pay a fair share of the cost So, let’s sweep away the conflicts and proceed words independently, then directing them to Pola Rosen, Ed.D. of public education here in the city. to what we can all agree on: comprehend what they are reading in a thought- ASSOCIATE EDITORS: The school system can, and should, continue Teaching the sounds of the language with their ful way is appropriate. Here all the elements of Heather Rosen, Adam Sugerman, to work to improve efficiency particularly by appropriate letter symbols from the beginning is different types of writing (fiction, non-fiction), Rob Wertheimer reductions in personnel in the district offices essential. elements of stories (character, plot, conflict) and ASSISTANT EDITOR: and central administration. Savings in these Helping students to understand what they are appreciation of beautiful writing all have an Marie Holmes areas will be needed to help fund teacher salary reading is essential. important place in a reading program. increases and necessary additional personnel Teaching students to write clear sentences, A good writing program can also be started EDITORIAL INTERNS: such as assistant principals and teaching spe- paragraphs, compositions is essential. early by beginning with writing simple declara- Leah Bourne, Robert Stiles cialists. The mayor has recognized that the cost Now we can proceed to the best order in which tive sentences, moving to paragraphs and then to PRODUCTION MANAGER: of school construction in NYC is outrageous to do things, as supported by vast federal compositions teaching the structural elements of Rick Sulz (almost three times the average cost per square research of educational studies and as based on each. Writing helps clarify thought in subject foot of equivalent construction outside of the current neurological studies. matter which might be of great interest to the stu- GUEST COLUMNISTS: city). The chancellor should also examine the Teach letter sounds and letter symbols from dent or can allow expressions of deepest feelings Stevanne Auerbach, Ph.D. (Dr. Toy), Mayor cost of maintenance and repairs. The mayor the very beginning. As soon as the child learns a and concerns. Michael Bloomberg, Matilda Raffa Cuomo, should assure transparency in this area by pro- few letter sounds, he or she can immediately put This is a well-rounded reading program that Donald Feinfeld, MD., Dr. Carole G. viding the city council with the information them into words. Simultaneously writing and will equip students to explore the entire universe Hankin, Chancellor Joel Klein, Rob that it has requested. sounding out simple words at first, and more of myths, fairy tales, history, science, human Langston, Lorraine McCune, Ph.D., Alfred The budgetary problem should not be per- complicated ones later, helps the child fix in his thought for the rest of their lives and give them Posamentier, Ph.D., Sandra Priest Rose, mitted to distract from the fact that the schools mind what is being taught, while reinforcing eye that which gives all of us our humanity, an Randi T. Sachs, Assemblyman Steven require immediate attention. For months, the training. Children’s eyes have to be trained to go understanding of times past, of other countries, Sanders, Ian Taubin mayor was consumed with reorganizing school in the direction in which we read and write in of other peoples, and of one another. STAFF WRITERS: governance. More recently, the mayor and English. This careful training helps prevent read- References: The Writing Road to Reading. Jacob Appel, Joan Baum, Ph.D., Kim chancellor have begun to focus on substantive ing, writing and spelling reversals. Accurate New York: William Morrow, 1990; Report of the Brown, M.C. Cohen, Hope Glassberg, changes. Perhaps all the reorganization and spelling is important both for good comprehen- National Reading Panel: An Evidence-Based Tom Kertes, Katarzyna Kozanecka, Adam relocation wasn’t merely “rearranging the Assessment of the Scientific Research Literature Kushner, Mitchell Levine, Sybil Maimin, chairs on the deck of the Titanic.” and its Implications for Reading Instruction, Merri Rosenberg, Chris Rowan, Andrew In recent weeks policy initiatives have been While the program of transfers can provide 2000.# Schiff, Neil Schuldiner, Deborah Young announced which could make a difference in immediate help for students in failing schools, Sandra Priest-Rose is a founding trustee of the the children’s education. The hard part is con- in the long run, these schools cannot simply be Reading Reform Foundation, www.readingre- BOOK REVIEWERS: verting these policy changes into actions. The abandoned. They must be brought up to an formny.org, and Chair, Lincoln Center Institute Harris Healy, III, Lillian Shapiro, most comprehensive of these is the citywide acceptable level. In this regard the initiatives for the Arts in Education. Selene Vasquez public school choice program under the No announced to improve principal leadership and COMICS: Child Left Behind Act. This program initiates a accountability is quite hopeful, including the Francis H. Brummer, Bruce Wotring transfer process for eligible children from fail- planned financial incentives to get the best IN THIS ISSUE ing schools to “better performing schools,” principals to transfer to low performance MEDICAL EDITOR: Commentary/Editorial ...... 2 Herman Rosen, M.D. including transfers across home district lines. schools. Now we need a similar program for Spotlight on Schools ...... 3-9, 18-19 How the receiving schools will accommodate teachers. Special Education ...... 10-11 MODERN LANGUAGE EDITOR: the potential flood of transfers remains to be Altogether, there appears to be real move- Music, Art & Dance ...... 12-13 Adam Sugerman determined. Perhaps, the chancellor is count- ment on the part of the mayor and the chancel- Children’s Corner ...... 14 MOVIE & THEATER REVIEWS: ing on the fact that parents will not take the lor. Making the schools work for all of our chil- TEACHERS OF THE MONTH .. . . 15 Jan Aaron necessary actions to get their children trans- dren is a long-term project—but the journey Medical Update ...... 16-17 ferred. Let’s hope that this is not the case.# begins with the first steps. # Colleges & Grad Schools. . . . . 20-23, 28 MUSIC EDITOR: College Directory ...... 20 Irving M. Spitz LETTERS Calendar of Events ...... 23 POLITICAL COMMENTARY: P. 2 & 11 Gift Giving Guide ...... 24-25, 28 Stuart Dunn To the Editor: To the Editor: Technology & Education ...... 26-27 “Realistic Math Makes Sense for Students” [Re: “Realistic Math Makes Sense for Homeschooling...... 28-29 SPORTS EDITOR: (December 2002) brought to mind a conversa- Students”] Try comparing the salary scales of Student Journalists...... 28 M.C. Cohen tion I had with a math teacher. My son, who Robert’s teachers both here and there. My Sports & Camps...... 29 Film & Theater Reviews ...... 29 WEB DESIGN: now has a Ph.D. in mathematical logic, was in guess is that if the teachers from there taught Neil Schuldiner, Rick Sulz, middle school at the time and the teacher algorithms here Robert would come out with Books ...... 30 Tutors ...... 31 Tamara Wiesen remarked that his solutions to problems were so flexible understanding and if Robert’s teachers Careers ...... 32 creative. My response at the time was that that from here tried to teach flexibility Robert ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT: MetroBEAT ...... 33 was because nobody ever taught him how to Martin Lieberman, Manager. Rosalyn would come out mush. There is more than one Museums As Educators ...... 34 solve the problems. variable here. Bacani, Steve Bailey (212) 721-9444, Resource & Reference Guide ...... 35 Dawn Clayton, Mitchell Levine, Francine J. Wald, New York, NY Stephen Wilson, Baltimore, MD Chris Rowan, Andrew Schiff GRAPHIC DESIGNERS: TO Neil Schuldiner, Rick Sulz, Education Update Tamara Wiesen

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EDUCATION AND PHILOSOPHY: THE ABRAHAM LINCOLN SCHOOL By MARIE HOLMES Howard Schott adores his job. He reads the THE KING Bible, Plato’s Republic and other canonical works to elementary and middle school stu- dents, teaches 7th grade science, and also OF ALL FIELD TRIPS serves as Headmaster of the eight year-old Abraham Lincoln School (ALS). ALS is affiliated with the School of Practical Philosophy with which it shares a building, as well as a group of schools in several different countries. The Abraham Lincoln School, housed in an East Side townhouse, began in 1975 as a playgroup for parents who were members of the School of Practical Philosophy Headmaster Howard Schott (founded in 1964). Although the K-8 Abraham Lincoln School wasn’t founded until much later, “it was a hot item on my mind in 1977, fessors. because my daughter was graduating [from the] Students tackle great works of Eastern and Ark,” says Schott, who was teaching science in Western philosophy on a weekly basis, and the City’s public schools at the time. (Schott teachers, who frequently take evening courses proudly reports that he is a graduate of the New at the School of Practical Philosophy, incorpo- York City public schools and Brooklyn rate this curricula into the general subject areas College.) By 1991, “we felt we had all the (history, English, math, science, art, music and ducks in a row,” as far as curriculum and foreign languages). trained teachers, he says. The school opened its Dramatic productions—plenty of Shake- doors in 1994. speare, of course—and an annual “Speech This past June, the School graduated its first Day” are examples of the school’s self-pro- 8th grade class. The 14 ALS students were claimed focus on public speaking, but it is the accepted to the usual roster of elite high philosophical curriculum (as well as the schools, validating, says Schott, the school’s Sanskrit) that makes ALS unique even among work, as well as staking its place within the private schools that have the liberty to talk city’s highly saturated independent schools about good and evil and God as they please. market. Despite all the Bible reading, Schott affirms One of the school’s 4th graders, whom Scott that ALS is “most definitely not a religious says has a “standing appointment,” stopped by school,” and concedes only that, “we do think the other day to give his Headmaster a gift. The the study of philosophy helps shed light on all student had seen “The Quotable Shakespeare” religions.” in a store window and told his mother that he Not surprisingly, Schott has long been an knew somebody who would appreciate it. The advocate of what is commonly referred to as fourth-grader likely quotes Shakespeare’s work “character education” in the schools. In a DISNEY’S BIG ADVENTURE ON NYC’S BIGGEST SCREEN. with as much ease as his teacher, having been recent series of lectures for ALS parents, he exposed to the master’s poetry and drama since explored educators’ and parents’ roles in teach- kindergarten—the same age that students are ing children ethics and virtue. Back in the introduced to Sanskrit. Latin follows in grade 1970s, Schott explains, the view in the educa- 5, Spanish in grade 7. tional community was that such questions were While the curriculum might seem not so too much for schools to take on and that such Broadway & 68th Street, NYC • enjoytheshow.com/imax much traditional as archaic, at first glance, the matters should be left to the parents. Group Sales 212.336.5025 School is more intent on having students But after corporate America proved so thoroughly Showtimes and Information 212.336.5000 engage in discussions about philosophical and moral issues than preparing future Classics pro- continued on page 31 Advance Tickets 800.555.TELL

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The Most Educational Funniest Magic Show Ever! INSIDE THE SUPERINTENDENT’S OFFICE: pals who have been fine teach- ers, he points out delicately, do Supt. Reyes Irizarry, not necessarily know what to look for in doing observations. District 76, BASIS In other words, a great teacher does not necessarily have the Drugs Are No Illusion Show By JOAN BAUM, Ph.D. stuff to make a great supervi- Though he has been Superintendent of Brooklyn and Staten sor—yet. Island High Schools (BASIS) for only a short time, Reyes The Superintendent knows, of Irizarry, whose career began as a bilingual teacher of social course, that supervision or lead- studies at James Monroe H.S., always seemed to be destined ership has been identified as cru- for supervisory positions. At each step of his career—from cial in the success of any school. Superintendent teacher to Assistant Principal (AP) to Principal, to Deputy Of all his many and diverse inter- Reyes Irizarry Magic!Magic! Superintendent of BASIS, to his present appointment by then ests, developing leaders would Chancellor Harold Levy—Izizarry, who holds seem to be Irizarry’s number-one goal. This interest—passion a Professional Diploma in Supervision and Administration is more like it, to hear him talk—has prompted him to contin- from Queens College, felt he “had developed a sense of com- ue and expand outside associations with, among others, petency” that he wanted to share with others and to “embrace” McGraw Hill and PBS [Public Broadcasting System], both of with them modes of instruction that worked. Being involved in which offer methodology and materials workshops for teach- the training of teachers, particularly in interactive instruction ers and principals—in print and online. But he has also initi- and information literacy, could not have come at a better time, ated or sustained initiatives on his own, such as Technology he points out, because of recent massive retirements, both of Fairs where “best practices” are on display. He is also a strong teachers and supervisors. Whether the new cadre comes from advocate of field trips to places such as the Brooklyn teaching fellows programs, UFT transfers who find Staten Aquarium, where there is a “great science and oceanography Island schools attractive, or imports from abroad, these young, program” that can easily be used to interest students in marine StarringStarring able, and willing new professionals, teachers and supervisors biology. In addition, the Superintendent has been concentrat- in training, are for Superintendent Irizarry a source of great ing on library media centers, incorporating technology and IllusionistIllusionist enthusiasm. Indeed, as he talks about programs devoted to making libraries “access equitable.” them, his voice takes on a distinctly animated tone. Of course, there will be cuts in education budgets as in all PHILLIP He is also “delighted” with the “unique partnerships” his areas in the city, but Superintendent Reyes Izararry feels PHILLIP district has maintained with The College of Staten Island (CSI) secure that they will not adversely affect instruction in the Discovery, Educational Administration, and Summer seven Staten Island and fourteen Brooklyn high schools JENNINGSJENNINGS Internship programs. A frequent lecturer in CSI’s cohort class- under his wing. Overcrowding is always an issue, but the es of future AP’s, Irizarry says that the marriage between edu- Superintendent prefers to refer to it as a “challenge,” getting Available for cational theory offered by the College and his own case-study, great teachers and principals to do more with less. It’s been your next school event! nuts-and-bolts experiential presentations is ideal. He gives his said that one of Reyes Irizarray’s adages is “If you don’t audience “real information.” As an example, he cites his know where you are going, any road will take you there.” By Outdoor/Indoor & District Comprehensive Plan, a blueprint for implementing contrast, for the high schools of Staten Island and Brooklyn, Large/Small Illusions Shows philosophical goals and strategies for how to measure these the Superintendent clearly has a well marked and well paved For bookings call 973-485-6210 goals. The plan is continually updated, he notes. 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Dr. Pola Rosen, publisher of trophe of 9/11, just as we tor’s effort encourages the child to expand his Education Update and Janice Perna-Nicholas, brace ourselves for still or her knowledge and education by reading Manager of the Hotel Wales and Franklin, more death and destruction worthwhile books as often as possible. jointly sponsored a scholarship for Brandeis in Iraq . . . and perhaps beyond. I hope the children will read more and be student Wendy Silverstein. Wendy’s mother, a The week before Christmas I was invited by eager to share and express themselves writing probation officer, was extremely proud, citing Pastor Cogo and Sister Marialice Ackermann, with pen pals in Italy. The Director of our more her daughter’s outstanding record at Cardozo principal of Our Lady of Pompeii School, than 65 programs in Italy (Mentoring Wendy Silverstein receives scholarship from High School and her mentor, English teacher located on Bleeker Street in lower Manhattan, USA/Italia) will communicate with Sister Dr. Pola Rosen and Janice Perna-Nicholas Gene Mann. Among the companies represent- to be part of the meaningful ceremony of a Ackermann to set up a pen pal connection with as Mayor Bloomberg gives the award ed as scholarship sponsors were Scientific presentation of donated books for their school the children of the Molise community devastat- American, JPMorgan Chase, and the Oratorio library. ed by the earthquake. Recently, President Richard A. Cook, of the Society of New York. Recipients of college The generosity of Emigrant Savings Bank This will help both children here and in Italy 100 Year Association presided over a ceremony scholarships were and Mr. Theodore C. Morehouse, III, Senior to learn a lesson which I learned a long time at Surrogate Court in which $80,000 in public students at Yale, Vice President, providing new books for the ago from one of my own mentors, my father, service and college scholarships were given to Harvard, Sophie- school children delivers exactly the right mes- who came from Sicily and taught my siblings outstanding career civil service employees and Davis and Williams, sage at a most appropriate moment in our his- and me—“Tutto il mondo e paese”—all the their sons and daughters. This year marked the among others. tory and memorializes the children in Italy. world is one. 40th anniversary of the granting of the awards Kenneth Forte, a We recognize the accomplishment of That means the beautiful young children who which total more than $1,000,000 since its Corrections Officer, Songmasters, who established the sponsorship were taken so suddenly and so early in their life inception. received an award of Emigrant Savings Bank for its initiative, in the Italian earthquake were our children, our Mayor Bloomberg addressed the packed, for rushing to assist Building the Future One Life At A Time. brothers and our sisters, as are all the suffering attentive crowd underscoring the fact that at Ground Zero with Communities In Schools with my good friends, children and young victims in our own country “many scholarship winners are public school his canine partner, Dr. Roy Blash and Steve Menchini, organized and all over the world. So we should love them, grads. For all its faults, the New York City pub- Bullet. the event for Songmasters. care about them, and remember them always. lic school system is better than any other in the Cook’s final rem- Most of us are not wise enough to compre- That is what we are trying to say with the gift US. I am thrilled to salute the exceptional work arks summed up the hend all of God’s design, but we do know this: of books for the children, thanks to Emigrant of the Hundred Year Association. This is a city sentiment of partic- that the one precious gift we have is the life still Savings Bank. that opens its arms to the tired, hungry and ipants and observers in us and the ability to do all we can to make Reading good books will open up their minds poor. 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I and failure is properly dealt with.# know this can happen because I have seen it in 480,000 First Mathematician to Win the Nobel Prize Takes an Interest in Pre-College Instruction 800 Troy-Schenectady Road, Latham, NY 12110 By ALFRED POSAMENTIER, Ph.D. awarded to Dr. Hauptman include election to the With all the publicity that the film A Beautiful National Academy of Sciences in 1988; and Mind brought to Nobel Laureate John Nash receipt of honorary degrees from the University (Economics 1994), who was only the second of Maryland in 1985, CCNY in 1986, University mathematician to win a Nobel Prize, forgotten of Parma, Italy in 1989, Bar-Ilan University, Is your child Dyslexic has been the first mathematician to win a Nobel Israel in 1990, Columbia University in 1990, or experiencing school failure? Prize, Dr. Herbert Hauptman (Chemistry 1985). Technical University of Lodz, Poland in 1992, Despite much speculation, why there is no Queen’s University, Kingston, Canada in 1993 If so, we may be the solution. Nobel Prize for mathematics has remained a and Niagara University, New York in 1996. We strive to help children not only have mystery for over a century. Following gradua- He has authored over 350 publications, includ- the skills needed to learn, but to want to learn. tion from the Townsend Harris High School, Dr. ing journal articles, research papers, chapters Hauptman enrolled and then graduated from and books. In 1970 Dr. Hauptman joined the CCNY in 1937 (math major). Like many gradu- crystallographic group of the Hauptman- ates during the depression, Dr. Hauptman Woodward Medical Research Institute (formerly thought that teaching would be the logical career the Medical Foundation of Buffalo) of which he to pursue. Fortunately for the world of science, became Research Director in 1972. He currently Dr. Hauptman’s Bronx dialect kept him from serves as President of the Hauptman-Woodward this position and enabled him to begin a career Medical Research Institute. Prior to coming here as a research scientist. Yet in recent years his he worked as a mathematician and supervisor in interest in the instruction of mathematics has various departments at the Naval Research been rekindled. Laboratory from 1947. In addition to his B.S. Today, Dr. Hauptman is a world-renowned from the City College of New York (CUNY), he mathematician who pioneered and developed a received his M.S. from Columbia University and mathematical method that has changed the Ph.D. from the University of Maryland. whole field of chemistry and opened a new era In recent years Dr. Hauptman has taken an in research in determination of molecular struc- interest in the math education of young people. tures of crystallized materials. Dr. Hauptman’s Always interested in motivating the next gener- direct methods, which he has continued to ation towards mathematics and thereby increas- improve and refine, are routinely used to solve ing the pool of mathematicians forging their way We take our commitment seriously complicated structures. It was the application of through the challenges presented by our techno- this mathematical method to a wide variety of logical advances. Towards this end, we have co- • Orton Gillingham trained staff chemical structures that led the Royal Swedish authored 101 Great Ideas for Introducing Key Academy of Sciences to name Dr. Hauptman Concepts in Mathematics (Corwin/Sage • Small classes with individualized attention recipient of the 1985 Nobel Prize in chemistry. Publications, 2001), a book designed to provide • Art, music, culinary arts, and computers for a Dr. Hauptman’s work is concerned with the secondary school teachers with some innovative development of methods for determining molec- ideas to incorporate into their regular high rich education ular structures, which is the arrangement of the school instructional program. His interest to atoms in molecules, using the technique of X- communicate on this theme led him to write Call 718-625-3502 or contact: Ruth Arberman, ray diffraction. The work is important because it introductory sections for two of my forthcoming Director of The Sterling School relates molecular structure with biological activ- books, Math Charmers: Tantalizing Tidbits for ity and therefore permits a better understanding the Mind (Prometheus, 2003) and Math 299 Pacific Street, Brooklyn, New York 11201 of life processes. In this way one can devise bet- Wonders: Motivation for Teachers and Students ter methods for the diagnosis and treatment of (ASCD, 2003).# Now Accepting Admissions disease. Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier is the Dean of the In addition to the Nobel Prize, other honors School of Education, City College of New York. JANUARY 2003 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ SPOTLIGHT ON SCHOOLS SCHOOL 9

ple in jail.” He’ll do it, but he would prefer not wandering around from 3:30-6:30 in the after- Brooklyn D.A. Joe Hynes to. noon, it’s “a formula for disaster.” So, what Unless we invest heavily in the social educa- about all those after-school programs, asks By JOAN BAUM, Ph.D. tion of our youngsters, he has said on numerous Sam Koplewicz from the Dalton School, who Is it possible that one of the best known dis- occasions, “you could build a zillion prison wants to be a lawyer. The D.A. turns a trict attorneys in the country—Charles “Joe” cells and you’ll never make the country safe.” continued on page 31 Hynes, from Brooklyn, was once so indifferent There are all those latch-key kids out there to school, let alone law school, that he let grades go, drifted through classes, and finally, after graduation, took the only job he could get—claims adjuster for Allstate? Yes, but. . . . The “but,” the soft-spoken but passionate 67- year old prosecutor says, had mainly to do with his mother, his ultimate mentor, a courageous woman who got up at 5:00AM to go to a job in a real estate office in Brooklyn when working women were hardly appreciated. Because of her faith and determination, the aimless gradu- ate from St. John’s Law School was wise District Attorney Charles “Joe” Hynes enough one day in 1963 to take advantage of a chance meeting with a law school alum who heart is in programs to prevent young people happened to know of an opening for an associ- from becoming criminals in the first place. ate attorney at the Legal Aid Society—“any- Shortly after serving as Special Prosecutor thing was better than claims . . . so boring.” and Chief Trial Attorney in the racially charged And thus Joe Hynes found himself with The Howard Beach case in 1987 (and winning three Job That Would Change His Life Forever. homicide convictions against the murderers of He loved Legal Aid because it gave him a Michael Griffith), Joe Hynes founded Legal sense of the law as mission, a dedication he Lives, a crime-prevention and consciousness- took with him when he moved to the Kings raising program for youngsters ages 10-14, County District Attorney’s Office and when he with major attention on the 5th grade. Joe was appointed Special State Prosecutor under Fernandez was Chancellor at the time and Governor Hugh Carey, who asked him to Mary Hughes, Hynes’s Deputy D.A. and Chief investigate nursing home fraud. That sense also of his Crime Prevention Division, along with a went with him when he became Fire Brooklyn neighbor and friend, Charles Posner, Commissioner in the Koch administration, and an Orthodox Jew, got together to start Legal it was reinvested, once again, when he was Lives. The D.A. has the goal of the program appointed a Special State Prosecutor under memorized: “Fostering good citizenship in stu- Governor Mario Cuomo for the New York City dents by helping them to make choices that Criminal Justice System. The irony of his pres- require courage, tolerance and decency.” He ent position does not escape the feisty, crusad- wants to break the pattern of self-abuse and ing prosecutor. As D.A., Joe Hynes is commit- hatred that drive young people to drugs, crime, ted to putting criminals behind bars, but his and violence. “It’s the easiest thing to put peo-

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“CIRCUS OF THE SENSES” BRINGS CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES UNDER THE BIG TOP

By MARIE HOLMES The Big Apple Circus recently held its annu- al Circus of the Senses for hearing and visually impaired students under the circus tent set up at Lincoln Center. The show happened to coincide with an impressive performance by the weather as a record six inches covered the ground in the first snow of the season. While far fewer than the 1,400 children who had tickets to the sold-out performance were able to attend—New Jersey groups chose not to risk road travel and Chancellor Klein cancelled all field trips—the fun could not be spoiled for those who did show up in hats, scarves and mit- Bethany & Christina Quinones, tens to “see” the animal trainers and acrobats students at J47 A clown entertains one and all Kianda Copeland work their magic. The audience, composed primarily of hearing and visually impaired children from specialized One teacher stood under a spotlight in the After the main performance, certain children, Francesco added that the Circus of the Senses private schools in Manhattan, alternately audience, interpreting the ringmaster’s commen- primarily those with more severe visual impair- audiences are some of his favorites. He likes to gasped and cheered as clowns, trapeze artists, tary into sign language. Vision-impaired chil- ments, were allowed into the ring for a “touch come out before the show and say hello as horses, poodles and other performers displayed dren were given infrared headsets broadcasting a session” in which they were allowed to feel the well—“the touch, it’s very nice.” The children their talents to cheerful music under multicol- live play-by-play commentary of the perform- poodle’s fur, the pony’s mane and several of the make for good circus-goers, he says. “They ored lights. As one clown teetered in the air on ance, narrated by Paul Wellstone, the Circus’ performer’s costumes. Children lined up to ride react for everything.” a giant ladder, a child called out, “Be careful!” founder and artistic director, and Michael on the trapeze artist’s velvet-covered swing, Big Apple Circus puts on a Circus of the (The clown proceeded to make a safe landing Christensen, co-founder and creative director, and one performer kept several of them wildly Senses in some of the major cities that it vis- on a padded mat.) from a back booth at one edge of the tent. entertained with a whoopee cushion. its—New York, Boston, Washington, D.C.— Francesco, another circus clown, taught says Paul E. Cothran, Director of Health and children how to make music by running Community Programs for the Circus. “It’s damp fingers around the rim of a glass—a probably my favorite show that we do.”# Lynn University – Old Forge Center trick he uses during the performance—dip- The Big Apple Circus will be performing ping little fingers in the water and dragging Dreams of a City at Lincoln Center until Lynn University’s Old Forge Center, located in the majestic Adirondack them around the rim until the glass emitted January 12th, 2003. For more information, call Mountains of upstate New York is dedicated to students with learning disabilities sound. “They feel the vibration of the glass,” 1-800-922-3772 or go to www.bigapplecir- THE HIGH SCHOOL COMPLETION THE ASSOCIATE DEGREE PROGRAM he explained. cus.org. PROGRAM • For Students with the innate skills and a • Intensive academic support desire for higher education • A 21-unit high school diploma program THE SWISS-AMERICAN THE ENRICHMENT PROGRAM HOSPITALITY INSTITUTE AT OLD THERE IS HELP FOR ADD/ADHD • Academics for lifelong learners FORGE CENTER • Interest-based internships • Management training for the Results-Oriented Solutions For Families & Adults THE PRE-COLLEGE EXPERIENCE hospitality industry • A program for academic and social • Curriculum/texts by industry skill building leader, AH&MA Advanced Parenting Skills - Learn the tested techniques that work with your child’s special wiring. Minimize non-compliant ATradition of Learning, Caring and Experiencing behaviors, power struggles and family discord as you help your child for Students with Learning Disabilities increase his or her ability to self-regulate. Instructor: Dr. Norma Doft 6-session evening seminars for parents & caregivers of 2-11 year olds with For further information contact us at: Phone: (800) 351-5327 Attention Deficit Disorders or related behavioral issues. Limited group size. PO Box 1159, Old Forge, NY 13420 Email: [email protected] Study & Organization Skills - Learn useful techniques and strategies to successfully manage schoolwork, graduate board study, multiple deadlines, papers and projects. Individual sessions for adults and older teens.

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Living and Overcoming Learning Students Spread Cheer to Group Homes Disabilities Nearly 30 young adults with developmental disabilities were treated to a holiday party By ROB LANGSTON school or college. I would have never shared recently, courtesy of the eighth-grade confir- I spent many miserable years as a “handi- my stories of growing up with dyslexia with mation class at Holy Innocents Church. capped” child and I have spent many wonder- hundreds of thousands of children and I would Many of the guests, mostly residents of ful years as a “successful” adult. Somewhere in have never written a book. The small measure YAI/National Institute for People with between lies living and overcoming learning of hope that people struggling with disabilities Disabilities’ group homes in Pleasantville and disabilities. The story I share in my book For received from these things would have been Mamaroneck, thoroughly enjoyed an evening the Children with regards to breaking through lost and so would I. of dancing, food and fun.# obstacles illustrates one such journey. There are two lessons here. One is to be care- I’ll never forget that day in 8th grade when I ful what you say to children, because they are misspelled my middle name. I wrote “Willaim” listening. The other is, that no matter how instead of “William.” It was a common mistake painful an obstacle is, it can be overcome. for someone with dyslexia, but my 8th grade I have not been able to fully overcome my teacher ridiculed me. He pointed out my error disabilities in reading, writing and arithmetic. I and said to the class, “I don’t know how any have, however, been able to overcome how student can get to the 8th grade without know- these deficits affect my perception of myself. ing how to spell his own name.” The class Learning to overcome obstacles is just that— a laughed. I forced a half smile and sank lower “learning process”. Next time something chal- into my chair, trying to look unaffected. lenges you in your life, just stop. Ask yourself Neither he nor the other students knew how “what power does this situation really have humiliated I felt. Living with a learning dis- over me that I am not giving it?” Ask yourself, ability often times means believing in yourself is there a way this situation can make you despite the good opinions of others. Creating a stronger or a better person? I think you will level of self-confidence that can withstand find, as I did, that overcoming a bad situation life’s more challenging moments is a gift. has more to do with your perception of yourself Developing this gift will serve you well all the than the actual elements that make up the bad “I was advised to settle for something less, but kept searching. When I visited Crotched days of your life. I chose to let this humiliating circumstance. Your reaction to situations is the Mountain there was a tangible difference in attitude- a professionalism, respect, and experience make me more determined to suc- only thing in your control. So take control and “can-do” attitude that set them apart. Standards are high and the approach genuine – they ceed, not less. It is in these moments that we chose to make life happen for you instead of to really care! I am very happy with Crotched Mountain and most importantly, so is my son decide to overcome or to be crushed. you.# Jared. He has grown enormously in many ways and is becoming the young man that I Many years later, I was inducted into that Rob Langston is Chairman and CEO, For the always thought he could become. It’s a family’s dream come true!” –Kathy Berns school’s Teacher’ Hall of Fame for my work in Children Foundation and President, the Crotched Mountain School Children’s Specialty Hospital helping children with learning disabilities. Langston Company. He is the author of For the • Special Education, K-12 • Sub-acute rehabilitation What if I had made a different choice that day? Children, Redefining Success in School and • Vocational Services • Post-surgical care What if I had bought into the ridicule? What if Success in Life. You can reach him by e-mail at • Day & Residential Programs • Respite services I had chosen to not ever risk humiliation again? [email protected]. Serving families since 1953 I’ll tell you. I would have never graduated high

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A new column answering par- ents’, educators’ and students’ questions about special education, in response to the flood of letters and e-mails we have been receiving at Education Update.

Dear Dr. Rosen: Do you have any information for a student who graduated with a transitional degree (special ed student), who has the desire and will to go to college? Are there programs to help assist children with learning disabilities get into college and assist them with their study while in college? Sheila Howard Hampton, GA

Dear Sheila, Richard Cook, Pres. 100 Year Assn. awards Community Colleges with open admissions Dr. Pola Rosen for Superior Educational Reporting & Community Service policies are an option for students who cannot meet the academic admission requirements for four-year insitutions. After earning an OES YOUR HILD ORK LOWLY Associate’s degree from a community college, D C W S ? Bright children who lack concentration, avoid reading, it is often possible to transfer to a four-year make careless errors, reverse letters, forget what was just university. read, often have deficient vision processing skills as the There are a few college programs specially underlying problem. Vision processing includes scanning, focusing, visualization (ability to picture information in the designed for learning disabled students. mind), and other visual functions, which means your child Students generally pay above tuition for this may have standard 20/20 eyesight but poor vision pro- extra support. Marymount Manhattan cessing. The difference is critical. College in New York City runs the Program Recent studies show these processing skills can be dramatically improved (three+ year gains in 10 weeks in for Academic Access (www.mmm.edu). many cases) with vision processing training. The Vision Jaquelyn Bonomo is the Program Director. Improvement Program (VIP), a nationally-known vision You can write her at [email protected] or processing program, provides relief from schoolwork frus- tration. The 10-week program consists of sequenced goal- call 212-774-0724. The University of Arizona oriented activities that the child accomplishes with one-on- in Tucson runs the S.A.L.T. Center one supervision. Volumes of success stories include (www.salt.arizona.edu). Shirley Ramsey is an A.D.D. children going from special ed classes or failing to honors as a result of vision processing training. admissions director. You can write her at ram- VIP has citywide locations. In the Manhattan office, Dr. [email protected] or call 520-621-3652. Henry Ettinger and staff provide free comprehensive screenings and free consultations. Call 212-265-4609 or visit www.nyvision.org for more information. 12 MUSIC, ART & DANCE ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ JANUARY 2003

Mark O’Connor: From Nashville to San Francisco, Musician Extraordinaire By JOAN BAUM, Ph.D. musicians. Indeed, Though Itzhak Perlman and Isaac Stern have Mark O’Connor is both lovingly referred to their violins as “fid- an aggregate of dles,” Mark O’Connor may have the world’s musicians—record indisputable claim to the term. By all artist, educator, accounts—professional and lay (The New York arranger, music Times, among numerous others, calling him camp director (in “spectacular”)—O’Connor is a superb fiddle Nashville and San player, whose performances and compositions Diego), strings con- have been creating a sensation in the music ference director (he world—on stage and on CDs. “Fiddle Concerto prefers “fiddle No 1,” for example (pointedly titled to embrace gatherings”), and the compatibility between folk and classical), is of course, compos- said to be the “most-performed modern violin er and performer. concerto.” Though his virtuoso work on the What unites all guitar and the mandolin have also won wide these activities praise, the “fiddle”—a.k.a. violin—is is the quality O’Connor’s most abiding love, both the word O’Connor brings to and the instrument. The “slangy, casual his work, which moniker,” he says, keeps him conscious of the has been called world of folk culture that has prompted so “distinctively much of his musicianship and that is explicitly American.” reflected in the names of some of his best-sell- No “crossover” ing albums, “Appalachia Waltz” and artist, O’Connor is “Appalachian Journey,” which won a Grammy the first to point out in 2001. For five years running, Mark that he crossed over O’Connor was Country Music Association’s long ago when, at Musician of the Year. the age of 7 he What is particularly remarkable about moved from guitar, this still not-as-well-known-as-he-should-be his first instrument, extraordinary talent is his range: jazz, folk, playing classical Photo Credit: Gino Domenico classical, rock. He can do traditional, he can do and flamenco, to Mark O’Connor, violin, Jon Burr, bass, Frank Vignola, guitar experimental, he can play acoustic, he can do the fiddle, when he electric. He fiddles brilliantly and regularly was 11. He sees with the likes of Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, himself as an “inclusive” musician. Grappelli. haps as a cautionary tale and as a way of Yo-Yo Ma and the double bassist Edgar Meyer, “Innovative” could also apply, as well as It is not just Mark O’Connor’s music, how- explaining his views about music education. as well as with well known rock and folk “inspired.” His fertile imagination seems to ever, that commands attention. It is his extraor- He thinks that young people should expose groups. Later this month his new album “In know no bounds. Ideas just come to him. dinary personal story, which includes the kind themselves to playing different kinds of Full Swing” will be released, and next month, Thinking about 9/11 one day led to his com- of grim childhood and adolescence that one music and learning various instruments. February 2003, he’ll be at Lincoln Center play- posing a Folk Mass, an a cappella work for the associates with 19th century novels. Growing Specialization, rigid curricula, age-structured ing with Wynton Marsalis and vocalist Jane Gloriae dei Cantores singers from New up poor, in a bleak Seattle backwater, lonely, or mode-conditioned instruction are not for Monheit. But wait, there’s even more to this England, which will premiere at St. Thomas solitary, burdened prematurely with responsi- him. He notes, incidentally, that his old high astonishing young man who at 41 has already Church in the City. Unlike most composers, he bilities at home and totally ignored at school school was completely rebuilt some years ago covered more ground than an aggregate of does not sit at the piano and write. Everything, (when he was not being waylaid and beaten up) and underwent a total curricular overhaul, he says somewhat shyly, seems to originate and for accomplishments that were already being including the institution of a music program. develop in his head. reported in the press, he came to feel that he Nonetheless, he laments the diminution of the Though legend has it that O’Connor is large- had a gift that no one wanted. When the occa- culture of music in America today, the lack of ly self-taught, he has had formal lessons on the sional opportunity to perform did come along, performance in homes. There is just so much violin, the guitar and mandolin. He is also the he and his mother were met with resistance and that schools can do or should do. When he was first to credit the major influences in his life. mockery from high school administrators. At a child, even the poorest would gather in rooms When talking about his mother, his tentative, the time there was not one musical instrument to sing and play. Pianos were the rule not the somewhat halting tenor noticeably shifts into in the entire building, he points out. Depressed, exception. And then, of course, reflecting on animated mode. She was, before she died of anxious, withdrawn, he decided at the age of 17 his unhappy childhood, Mark O’Connor articu- cancer when he was 20, the guiding light of his to hit the road, a trail that led to Georgia (where lates a heartfelt belief not only in the healing life. No one played an instrument in his family, he played with The Dixie Dregs, a top rock power of music but in its significance for a free he says, though he does remember that the fusion group), to Nashville, to San Francisco, society.# stereo was always on with classical music. In purposeful drifting that with each turn brought More on this unusual musician can be found better days, his presents were ballroom dancers, him great admiration. His story is one he tells on his website: www.markoconnor.com which may account for O’Connor’s attraction for cathartic reasons, obviously, but also per- to flamenco guitar when he was young. He also singles out the great Texas fiddler, Benny DISNEY GIVES SCHOOLS FIRST-CLASS TREATMENT Thomasson, and jazz guitar legend Stephane When you let your students discover the wonder and joy of Disney on Broadway, we’ll make the expe- rience unforgettable! This school year give your students a day to remember by taking advantage of Disney’s educational program, which provides schools with special rates for groups of 15 or more for Beauty and the Beast, Aida and Lion King. 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JANUARY 2003 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MUSIC, ART & DANCE 13 Artists, Innovators, and Teachers Hold “Imagination Conversation” at Lincoln Center Institute By MARIE HOLMES The “Conversation,” one of numerous discus- they sometimes appear to be talking about a Do schools suffer a lack of imagination? sions taking place throughout the country in the rare gift, even though “it’s clear that everyone The audience full of teachers and other edu- past few months, was designed to bring togeth- has an imagination—It’d be interesting to meet cation professionals in attendance at a er thinkers, artists, scientists, scholars, busi- someone who didn’t have one.” A challenge for panel discussion entitled “Imagination nesspeople and educators to talk about their educators, Deavere Smith and other panelists Conversation,” held recently by the Lincoln conceptions of the imagination, how their concurred, is to impart students with an under- Center Institute, likely rely upon their own imaginations have influenced their lives and standing of the rigor that all creative efforts imaginative powers every day. career paths, and how schools might do a better command. “Any imaginative energy has to be Yet at the end of a lengthy discussion about job of fostering the imaginative capacities of accompanied by rigor,” said Deavere Smith. “I the elusive nature of the human imagination their students. Maxine Greene, Professor don’t think I’d say that some people have more and its various applications, the illustrious pan- Emeritus at Columbia Teacher’s College and imagination than others. I think it’s more about elists—Natalie Angier, Shelly Lazarus, Reynold the Institute’s “philosopher-in-residence,” what you can make with your imagination.” Levy, Winston Lord, Anna Deavere Smith and responded to the panelists’ comments. Shelly Lazarus, Chairman and CEO of moderator Robert MacNeil—were in agree- MacNeil, of PBS’ MacNeil-Lehrer Ogilvy and Mather Worldwide, elicited agree- ment that one sector of society seriously lack- NewsHour, posited the nature versus nurture ing nods from panelists and audience members ing in imagination is education, specifically, the question, positioning himself squarely on the alike when she said, “if we ever needed imagi- policy side of education. side of genetic determinism. Natalie Angier, Robert MacNeil moderates at Lincoln Center native problem-solving it might be now.” Such award-winning science intensive, imaginative efforts present our best writer and author of hope of remedy for failing schools and school Woman: An Intimate . have this algorithm it really liberates you,” she systems, Lazarus suggested. Her own daughter, Geography, responded explained. she said, had recently left her Teach for that she disagreed, to a Winston Lord, Ambassador and Co-Chair of America classroom assignment out of frustra- certain point, saying, “I the International Rescue Committee, said he tion with high-stakes testing, Lazarus reported. think that there are ways did not believe that the Foreign Service reward- Maxine Greene offered her thoughts on the to teach people to think ed imaginative thinking in its employees. Some subject of the imagination, offering hope by creatively and I think we of the most celebrated, as well as the most assuring those present that they were not the should do more of that.” regrettable, chapters in this history of interna- first generation to reckon with tough questions Angier noted that even tional relations, Lord noted, could be character- in times of turmoil. more traditional teaching ized as acts of imagination, from the efforts to Teachers that spoke following the panel dis- methods that rely on rebuild Europe after World War II to the cussion appeared to share the speakers’ concern memorization and para- Domino theory of Communist takeover in Asia for their students’ academic and creative digms, such as English that supplied a justification for the war in futures. One teacher commented that it was grammar or the scientific Vietnam. comforting to hear the panelists reinforce the method, can foster stu- The playwright Anna Deavere Smith suggest- idea of multiple intelligences, albeit in different The audience listens attentively dent creativity. “If you . . ed that when people talk about the imagination, language, over the course of their discussion.#

tures, telling students African tales to foster ARTS EDUCATORS LEARN TOOLS OF THE TRADE pride and broaden understanding of “ethnic chic,” and planning museum tours were some By SYBIL MAIMIN office worked on the Rose Center. He lament- ink, and rice paper and taught the brush strokes of the many other opportunities to learn and Art teachers from the five boroughs recently ed that today “architecture is increasingly a and ink gradations used to depict traditional bring ideas back to the classroom that were met at Fiorello LaGuardia High School for celebration of the individual,” “an ego trip,” subjects such as bamboo, chrysanthemums, offered. Joan Davidson, president of NYCA- Music and Art and Performing Arts for the and noted that we marvel at the great buildings and irises. A model-making workshop taught TA, explained that the New York City Visual 22nd annual New York City Art Teachers of medieval Europe and Asia without knowing architectural principles and suggested how Arts Standards formed a framework for the Association (NYCATA) conference to share the names of their designers. Ideas for the Rose they could be learned in the classroom through workshops, and the perspectives gained would talents, techniques, and perspectives and to Center were explored via science fiction illus- references to the school, home, or neighbor- help teachers accomplish the vital task of honor some of their own for outstanding work trations, Styrofoam models, and flashes of hood. Learning “to see” from Noguchi sculp- “building art education.”# in the field. The full day of activities included inspiration. The “idea of a space where events a keynote address by noted architect James in space can be replicated” was key. Because Stewart Polshek and numerous hands-on work- some people are intimidated by museums, the shops that ranged from how to make puppets Rose Center was made visually accessible to from everyday materials to using computer those on the outside. The museum is a land- CRAFTS DESIGNED WITH FUN IN MIND! technology in the art studio. The day conclud- mark, he acknowledged, but “landmarks have ed with a gala reception in Lincoln Center’s to go on, to be transformed. Architecture is a SUPERB SELECTION Cork Gallery where many works by teachers vehicle for giving new life to an old place.” were exhibited. Meeting a different challenge, he and his firm James Polshek, who was honored as “Artist designed the Lycee to be “sublimely rational,” HUGE INVENTORY of the Year,” is particularly well known for because “that’s what’s French about it.” It will WE CARRY THOUSANDS OF ITEMS SUCH AS: designing the Rose Center for Earth and Space be an ècole de verre, a school of glass. at the American Museum of Natural History. 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*Flexible days & hours By DR. LORRAINE High quality preschool experiences, evaluated *Ages 2 to 5 years MCCUNE over the long term (1962 interventions evaluat- Enactment of the No Child ed 20 and more years later) improve a variety *Applications accepted for 2002/03 Left Behind Act of 2001 of life outcomes for at risk children, and “Life *Call for appointment (Public Law 107-110) will Skills Training” in junior high has been shown ensure that all children learn to reduce tobacco, alcohol, marijuana and illic- Applications accepted for 2002/03 by supporting educational activities evaluated it drug use. Effects in the preschool and Life by “scientifically-based research”. Teachers Skills research were analyzed over many beware. The decades. This is surely long range. salvation Let’s not leave today’s children behind while offered by this we wait for scientific validation of known edu- plan is both cational effects. All of the academic effects limited and noted above involve relationships between an long-range. instructor, a child, and some material to be It is limited learned. The more intimate, detailed, and because, at knowing these relationships are the more the present, only child will learn. a handful of The Report of the Coalition for Evidence- practices meet Based Policy (November 2002) recommends the “scientifi- that the U.S. Department of Education develop cally-based” a strategy of “randomized trials” to determine test. The aca- the efficacy of various educational practices. A demic strate- good idea perhaps, but in many ways limited, gies include and definitely most useful in the long range. one-on-one Randomized trials involve random assignment tutoring for of children to a group that experiences the prac- at-risk students tice to be tested or a control group. Presumably in reading, as the practices under test are believed to be very well as teach- good for children. How do we justify offering ing phonemic these practices to only some children? What awareness, instruction will the others receive? phonics Another problem: How do you measure suc- instruction, cess? Standardized tests are often the answer, guided oral but limitations in such tests are apparent. Can reading with we really effectively test the educational feedback, and progress we value most in children? peer tutoring And another: Will all teachers deliver the in kindergarten educational practice under study in the same and elementary reading and continued on page 31 mathematics. JANUARY 2003 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ TEACHERS OF THE MONTH Award 15 Winner

OUTSTANDING Eric Stein TEACHERS Lincoln HS. He made a proposal to the “Play it Smart” program, which is sponsored by the John J. Pershing I.S. 220K, OF THE National Football Foundation. This program Brooklyn MONTH has now been successfully implemented into Jo N. Rossicone, Principal Lincoln’s Football Program. The program assists the athletes in their studies, incorporat- Vincent Grippo, Superintendent The Outstanding Teachers of the Month for January 2003 have each been nominated by their colleagues, stu- ing technology, offers SAT prep courses, helps Community School District 20 students meet NCAA requirements, assists stu- dents, parents, principals and superintendents. dents in improving their writing skills, and Education Update has selected five nominees for their emphasizes the importance of working hard in outstanding work on the “frontiers” of education. the classroom. Congratulations to this month’s Outstanding Teachers of the Month in recognition of the vital role they play in Michael Pezone our childrens’ lives. Law, Government & Community Service Magnet High School, Queens Carole Kelly, Principal Susan Bellack has been teaching for fifteen from these experiences students learn of the John W. Lee, Superintendent years, and has dual certification in general and many professional opportunities that are avail- special education. She works in the library and able to them. She also takes care to prepare stu- Queens does language arts lessons at P811Q. During dents with different handicaps, as well as stu- the past five years she has been providing sen- dents in the general education program and the Michael Pezone has been a social studies Eric Stein first wanted to become a teacher sitivity workshops for the general education non-diploma population of the school for their teacher at Law, Government & Community after a high school teacher inspired him. He students and inclusion support workshops for transition. She is a consistent, thorough and Service Magnet High School for five years. He studied at Queens College, and after college he participating staff. Susan was awarded an conscientious teacher. She is extraordinarily is a dynamic and caring teacher who always lis- enlisted in the US Army. During his time in the IMPACT II Disseminator Grant for a curricu- committed to her students, and even after her tens to his students, and challenges them to do military he traveled to South Korea and Japan lum program entitled Project Friend. The pro- students have graduated, she follows up on their best. His classes are always interesting while gaining the leadership qualities he now gram serves as a values- and character-educa- their status of employment and other training. and he involves his students by filling his class- uses as a teacher. After being honorably dis- tion program for students with disabilities and es with debates and in-depth analysis’ of histor- charged from the service he began teaching their non-disabled peers. It addresses toler- Shawn O’Connor ical events. He is known by his students as a ance, patience, and friendship towards those teacher who goes out of his way to make sure TESL(Teacher of English as a Second Abraham Lincoln High School, Language) at I.S. 220 in Brooklyn. Eric has that are different. Students integrate language that every student understands everything dis- grown to love the position, and he is close to arts and technology skills by using computers Brooklyn cussed in his class. Michael has helped students earning a master’s degree in TESL. Eric, an to create literacy and art projects related to Corinne Heslin, Principal publish a student news magazine called friendship. The students contact each other Perspectives, which includes poetry, surveys, avid runner and a member of the New York Reyes Irizarry, Superintendent Road Runner Club thought that many students weekly via e-mail and participate in read-aloud news articles and artwork. He also moderates a would enjoy the experience of running on a and “book buddy” sessions in which they read BASIS school organization that fights discrimination, daily basis. He wrote a proposal and started a stories relevant to the program. They create a and is known as an advocate for every student. program that has the kids at I.S. 220 in compe- book on friendship using their responses to He is admired by his students and his peers for tition with other students around the tri-state these stories, and they create a “friendship the commitment he has for his students and the area. As a coach, Eric developed the students’ mural” with photographs of each other as they energy he brings to the classroom. raw talents and took his kids to the top, winning work together. Each student also creates a many trophies. His biggest highlight so far has square for a friendship quilt. The program cul- “It is the supreme art of the teacher been qualifying the kids in the program for the minates in a Celebration of Friendship party where students videotape vignettes of their to awaken joy in creative expression Verizon Millrose Games at Madison Square and knowledge.” Garden. In November 2002 the Knicks hon- reactions and feelings about Project Friend. ored Eric when he received the “City Spirit This program provides special education stu- Award,” which is sponsored by the NY Knicks dents the opportunity to interact with their gen- -Albert Einstein and Emigrant Savings Bank. Eric is the type of eral education peers, and helps to improve their teacher who gives everything to the kids he communication and social skills. It also teach- teaches, and motivates them to achieve their es general education students to better under- full potential. stand and accept people with disabilities. Education Update honors teachers Shawn O’Connor is a Physical Education each month for their outstanding work on the “frontiers” of education. Students, Susan Bellack Donna Day-Gandolfo Teacher, Dean, and Head Football Coach for parents, principals, superintendents and William H. Maxwell Vocational Lincoln High School. He is a teacher who colleagues may nominate teachers by Marathon School P811Q, Queens excels in each of his positions. He has great describing, in one or two paragraphs, Joan Washington, Principal High School, Brooklyn rapport with his students and athletes. Students what is “special” about them. In June, we Susan Erber, Superintendent Barbara Elk Duncan, Principal love to attend his classes because he inspires will invite the teachers, principals and Charles Majors, Superintendent them and pushes them to achieve their best. As superintendents to a luncheon to cele- Citywide Programs a physical education teacher he brings a great brate their achievements. Please include a Brooklyn amount of energy to his classes, and is con- photograph with each nomination, the stantly praising his students, and giving them principal’s name and superintendent’s Donna Day-Gondolfo is an excellent teacher, positive reinforcement. He makes an immense name. role model, coordinator and mentor. For the effort to get to know his players physically and Teachers are the backbone of our educa- past several years as a teacher at the William H. mentally. As the Head Football Coach he tional system. They richly deserve the Maxwell Vocational High School she has pre- encourages his students to strive to reach their recognition that Education Update plans to give them. pared activities to help her students transition potential both on and off the field. He teaches from high school into the workplace. She has his players the value of working hard in their Dr. Pola Rosen, Publisher placed hundreds of students into off-site posi- academic classes. He has successfully guided tions that range from voluntary to paid jobs. his senior athletes to meet all of the require- Please email recommendations, with photo- She mentors her students, provides coaching ments that are needed to attend college, and he graphs, to: [email protected], or mail to: for job development, and exposes her students has organized study halls for his athletes in the Education Update, to many employment programs. Throughout off season, created a conditioning program, and 276 5th Ave. Suite 1005, the school year she prepares exciting excur- consistently encouraged his student athletes to New York, NY 10001 sions for her students that are in preparation for do community service. Shawn has also made their transition from school to a career, and an effort to expand the football program at New York City • JANUARY 2003 FOR PARENTS, EDUCATORS & STUDENTS • 16

pelling. Cosmetic uses include rejuvenating LASERS: STATE-OF-THE-ART IN DERMATOLOGY and resurfacing the skin and removing sun spots, age spots, blood vessels and tattoos. A By SYBIL MAIMIN a career that combines her interests in research different types of medical lasers, each designed laser can remove hair. New and popular are Ever wonder what happens to Westinghouse (lasers), art and aesthetics (improving skin to treat specific problems and skin types. The non-ablative lasers that are even less invasive (now Intel) Science Talent Search winners? appearance), and taking care of people (private machines are extremely expensive and, because than the standard machines. Well, one, Dr. Arielle N.B. Kauvar, board certi- practice). A fellowship in of explosive development in Dr. Kauvar has not encountered obstacles as a fied dermatologist and a fellow of the American Mohs micrographic surgery, the field, become obsolete in female in medicine. Her mentors (Dr. Joel Academy of Dermatology and the American which allows the removal of two to three years. Dr. Schwartz, whom she worked with on her College of Mohs Micrographic Surgery and skin cancer with microscop- Kauvar has 10 of the newest Westinghouse project, Drs. Rudolf Baer and Cutaneous Oncology, and a Westinghouse ic control, and laser surgery lasers in her office, one of a Jeanette Thorbecke, who supervised her lab work finalist in 1980, is on the cutting edge of the put her in the forefront of handful of dermatologists in during college summers, and Dr. Rox Anderson, development and use of lasers in the treatment her field. Involved in the the country able to offer a “a fascinating man” who is a pioneer in lasers) of cosmetic and non-cosmetic skin problems. development of modern wide range of personalized have all encouraged her. They and other teachers Dr. Kauvar worked in an immunology lab laser technology and prac- treatment options with the were “fundamentally important to [her] intellec- while in high school and based her tice, she continues to be a most appropriate machine tual development and analytical skills.” When Westinghouse project on her study there of the pioneer in its many uses. available. she began, there were few women in Mohs sur- movement of white blood cells. Also tempted She lectures, teaches, and Lasers have many derma- gery; today about half of all dermatologists are Dr. Arielle N.B. Kauvar by a possible future in art, she took art history writes about the procedure tologic uses. Non-cosmetic female. Her hours are long but she encounters courses, painted, and did free-lance illustrating and is preparing a compre- applications include removal few emergencies in her practice, allowing while a student at Princeton, but spent her sum- hensive textbook, Principles and Practices of of birth marks (can be done at birth) and pre- planned time with her physician husband and mers doing immunology. At Harvard Medical Cutaneous Laser Therapy, to be published this cancerous skin growth. Psoriasis and inflam- three children. Smart, focused, and excited about School, where she continued her work on white year. matory skin disease can be treated. Lasers that being at the cutting edge of medical lasers, she blood cells, the lab focused on skin immunolo- The first medical laser, created in 1960 to target blood vessels can eradicate port wine sees a future where patients around the globe will gy, leading her to the specialty of dermatology. remove birthmarks, was successful but often stains and spider leg veins. Scars can be benefit from treatments undreamed of in the past. Her journey of self-discovery continued during left scars. In 1983, a laser was developed which reduced or removed, and a recently approved Dr. Kauvar is president-elect of the a residency at New York University Medical eliminated marks without damaging surround- machine can attack acne. Dr. Kauvar sees Dermatologic Society of New York.# Center where, experiencing the satisfactions of ing skin, based on a concept known as selective infants and children and believes the psycho- Dr. Kauvar’s office is at 994 Fifth Avenue, 212- working directly with patients, she decided on photothermolysis. There are currently about 30 social benefits of early intervention are com- 249-9440. JANUARY 2003 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MEDICAL UPDATE 17

Weill Cornell Medical Advances: BEYOND THE STETHESCOPE First Robotic Urologic Surgery Done on Child in NYC If you are a physician with a hobby (photog- you’d joke about sulfa drugs raphy, poetry, etc), we invite you to share it or your aunt’s old sofa. EDITED By HERMAN ROSEN, M.D. suturing the ureter. By contrast, robotic surgery with our readers. Our newspaper is distributed Words laughed and sang to you Dr. Dix Poppas, Chief of Pediatric Urology at is less invasive than the “open” procedure, has to 35 hospitals and the deans of every medical as you walked the cliffside New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell less postoperative pain and shorter hospital school in NYC. The general public has access or glided needles into nerves. Medical Center performed the first robotic uro- stays, and has the potential for higher success through schools, streetcorner boxes, apartment You knew how they branch and branch, logic surgery on a child in New York City. The rates. The seven year-old patient operated on at buildings and subscriptions. carry music in shivers and pain. procedure was done to correct a congenital Weill Cornell is recovering well after a three- obstruction of the flow of urine from the kidney day hospital stay. Donald Feinfeld, M.D., Chairman, With old chants slipping up and down where it connects to the ureter. If left untreated, UPJ obstruction is often detected before birth Department of Medicine, Nassau University through your head, you wrote poems. kidney damage will result. As many as 1 in 200 by abdominal ultrasound. It may become clini- Medical Center is a published poet. When your heart snapped, children are born with dilatation of the inside of cally significant in childhood with flank pain they rose from the wreck, shouting the kidney mainly due to obstruction at the and altered kidney function. SOLFEGGIO for more brightness, more words. ureto-pelvic junction (UPJ). The traditional Less than ten robotic pyeloplasties have been (In memoriam: Dr. Jay Liveson, Neurologist) “open” operation for this condition leaves a performed in the U.S.; the first was done at Sing the heavens, sing the hills, large scar. Another surgical technique using Boston Children’s Hospital in 2002. Adult It’s a tune where the notes slide run scales to their roots laparoscopy sometimes presents difficulty in robotic pyeloplasties were first done in 2001.# down the scale, sol to fa, before in Hebrew, English, Yiddish. they rise again, spread into melody Along the path of glowing nerves that tracks back to the origin. your verses flow, sol-fa, Optimal Therapy for High Blood Pressure Rhythm drums once and again, charges down to their starting place. my brain to remember your stepfall. 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If you have visited a museum, attended adoption of new standards that energized the edu- dents and schools in poor areas of the Bronx, The standards movement penetrates every school or seen a doctor or other medical cation system in New York State.” In recent years, for example, aren’t quite the same as those of level of education, Chapey says, from pre- professional in New York State, your expe- the Regents diploma, which high-achieving stu- students in upstate towns that have struggled kindergarten through graduate school and pro- rience has been impacted by the work of dents obtained by passing a number of Regents economically since industry left the area. One fessional certifications. The Board is currently the Board of Regents, the policy making exams, has been phased out. All high school stu- Superintendent in an upstate area with plenty of working on revising the requirements to earn body of the University of the State of New dents in the state will now have to pass five farmland mentioned to the Regents that his par- certification for leadership positions, such as York, the State’s unique integrated system Regents exams in core curriculum areas to earn a ents worried about their children going off to principals and superintendents, within the diploma in 2003. college because they were afraid that they state’s school systems. These new regulations of education. As the following Board mem- “The potential of having all institutions that are would leave the farm and never come back. will then force graduate programs that prepare bers can attest, the Regents do much more allied to education under one body, like the “The dreams are the same, but the issues are such professionals to be reevaluated, as they than mandate high school examinations. Regents, is staggering. We need to exploit the very different . . . Everybody wants their kids to will eventually have to re-register with the Compiled by Marie Holmes connections better,” says Phillips. “If we can be be healthy, responsible, happy people,” says State Education Department. more flexible on testing, I see a bright future for Frank, noting that New York has traditionally Since Chapey joined the Board, the Regents arry Phillips, the Regents.” been a gateway for people looking to fulfill have toughened the standards for teacher edu- 3rd, who also their dreams in the United States. cation, forcing colleges and universities to Hserves as harlotte Frank ended her term as Regent The newly-required exams, she says, test for reregister their teacher education programs. Managing Director in April, 2002. She came to the Board “skills that are needed to build up the city, state College presidents became responsible for of financial services Cafter having been a teacher, supervisor and nation,” so that New York does not need to oversight of such programs, and “came by group Winged Keel and then administrator in the New York City look outside its borders for a competent work- dozens to Regents meetings,” according to in New York City, schools, serving for 25 years as executive force. Chapey. was appointed in director of curriculum and instruction. She is The mission of the Board of Regents, says Projects in development include a student March, 2000. He currently a Senior VP at McGraw-Hill Frank, relates to “the quality of life in the information system that would allow school has served on the Publishers and works with the education divi- state.” officials to track students within the state sys- board of various sion. tem, to use when students have transferred or Harry Phillips, 3rd non-profit organiza- During her tenure, she served on the commit- eraldine moved. tions, including tee that set the new standards for career and Chapey was “What we have been doing is forerunner to a W estchester technical education diplomas. Frank praises the Gappointed lot of what the national government is expect- Community College. As a Regent, he serves on flexibility of these specialized courses of study to the Board of ing,” says Chapey, claiming that New York has the Higher Education, Professions, VESID and says that career and technical education Regents four years held the highest education standards in the (Vocational and Educational Services for programs help students see the connections ago, following a entire country since 1984, which she attributes Individuals with Disabilities) and Audit commit- between academic subjects and career and tech- long and varied to its unique immigration patterns and new tees. A current hot topic facing the Higher nical issues, or everyday life. She was also with career in educa- immigrants’ dependence on public education. Education committee is teacher education pro- the Regents when they raised the bar for high tion. She began grams. The Professions committee “is trying to school students across the state, changing poli- as an elementary obert M. Bennett, Chancellor of the make sure the public is well-served by the 39 cy so that all students must pass multiple school teacher and New York State Board of Regents, was licensed professions,” says Regent Phillips. Regents exams in order to earn their diplomas. continued to earn Geraldine Chapey Rfirst appointed in 1995 and again in Professional licenses granted by the State Like many of her colleagues, she credits the licenses and degrees, 2000. Since 1975, he has taught at the graduate University of New York (the Regents) include standards movement with saving some students including certifica- level both at Niagara University and SUNY physicians, pharmacists, midwives, massage ther- from others’ low expectations. “The data was tions in speech pathology and administration Buffalo. He is the founder of Family Support apists, landscapers and shorthand reporters. The that there were more Special Ed kids passing and a doctorate in administration and public Centers, which places health and social servic- VESID committee deals with Special Education Regents exams than had been taking them policy from Fordham University. She was a es in schools, and Success by Six, an early in the entire state as well as all other services for before.” professor and a dean at St. John’s University childhood education program, both in Western persons with disabilities. The Audit committee, The Regents and has authored numerous articles, books and New York. which performs audits of particular districts and take their duties curriculum and currently teaches at City Key educational issues in New York today, as programs, “is concerned with budget imbalances and responsibili- College. In sum, says Chapey, “I’m steeped in presented in the Regents’ “performance in the school districts,” according to Phillips. ties seriously, says education—it’s my life.” Agreement” for Commissioner of Education He believes that some of the more pressing Frank. They “do a Regent Chapey serves on the Finance, Higher Robert P. Mills, include: implementing poli- issues now facing the Regents are: dropout rates, good job of mov- Education and VESID committees. She charac- cies, such as a statewide student record system, especially in urban areas, test requirements for ing around the terizes the Regents as “policy makers and that will help more students meet testing earning a high school diploma, and financing state so that they accountability assessors,” who work in close benchmarks, helping school districts that are VESID efforts and the testing required by all can think about collaboration with those who implement their struggling with finances and poor student per- states under President Bush’s 2001 No Child Left the policies that policies: the state, federal and local govern- formance, and strengthening the internal gover- Behind legislation. are designed and ments. “For our work to be successful it’s not nance of the Regents and the Department of Charlotte Frank The most significant action that the Board has developed.” The limited to a group of Regents sitting in a room Education. taken during his tenure, says Phillips, “was the concerns of stu- making decisions.” The Board is currently reviewing the stan-

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By ROBERT STILES academies and in 1811 these standards were the Superintendent of Common Schools and the and a Republican caucus disregarded the com- The New York State Board of Regents came applied to colleges as well. By decree of the Superintendent of Public Instruction were both mittee’s recommendations, and created their into being on May 1, 1784 as a corporation that Legislature, the Regents then became trustees of members of the Board of Regents. What’s more, own unification bill, which then became law, served as the trustees of Columbia College. In the State Library and the State Museum in 1894 the state’s high schools were subject to visitation and established an Education Department on 1786, the Regent’s committee broadened the and 1845; and, by 1892, the Regents involve- and inspection by the Superintendent of Public April 1, 1904. Under the new law, the Regents Board’s responsibilities so that their own board ment came to include the right to incorporate and Instruction, even as the academic programs of all would appoint a Commissioner of Education. of trustees would then oversee all colleges and supervise all libraries, museums, correspon- secondary schools were under the general super- The first Commissioner was Andrew S. Draper. academies. One year later, a bill was passed dence schools, and other educational institu- vision of the Regents. Competition between the The Legislature elected the Regents to serve which gave the Board the power to ‘visit and tions. Regents and the Department of Public fixed terms and one Regent was chosen from inspect all the colleges, academies, and schools’ Throughout the mid to late 1800’s, as a Instruction grew increasingly acute, and in 1899 each Supreme Court judicial district. Currently, in New York, award higher academic degrees, statewide system of public schools evolved, the Governor Theodore Roosevelt named a special the Board of Regents works through standing hold and distribute funds, and exercise other responsibilities of the board of Regents and commission to study the unification of the two committees, as well as through its administra- powers of a corporation. Under this law, the those of the newly created Department of Public educational organizations. The commission rec- tive, legal, legislative, and ethical committees, board consisted of nineteen Regents, elected for Instruction came into conflict because of the two ommended that a new department of education, while it oversees educational activity at all lev- lifetime terms by Legislative joint ballots, in entities’ similar administrative functions. The with greater oversight, replace the Department els, including private and public, non-profit and addition to the governor and lieutenant governor. Department of Public Instruction, under the of Public Instruction and that the Governor, with for-profit institutions. The Regents meet month- Initially, the Regents implemented their common school law of 1812, oversaw the state’s the consent of the Senate, appoint the Regents ly, excluding August. The group has become authority of oversight by reviewing and sifting public school system by advising local school for fixed terms. Soon after, in 1904, a joint com- more socially heterogeneous—the first woman through statistical information gathered from the authorities, allocating state aid and preparing mittee proposed that a three-member commis- was appointed in 1927, the first Italian- state’s academies and colleges, and any actual reports to the Legislature. One indication of the sion, made up of one Regent and two other American in 1948, the first African-American in visit to an institution by the Regents was a rare increasingly blurred lines of authority between members (each selected by their respective par- 1966, and the first Puerto Rican-American in occurrence. In 1801, the Regents began applying the Department of Public Instruction and the ties), oversee elementary and secondary educa- 1975. # a set of standards for the incorporation of private Regents became apparent when, after 1842, both tion. However, then-governor Benjamin Odell 19

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dards for school Education Committee. the verge of irrelevance,” she says, adding that money the state should allocate for the schools principals. School One of the most important issues now facing between then and now, the Regents “really and how such funds should be distributed. A leaders, says Bennett, the Regents, says Dawson, is maintaining ade- became a force for change.” These days there is number of concerns arise during this process, must “understand quate funding for school districts as the state less anger directed at the Regents. On the other as might be expected in any equation involving governance issues, economy sputters. “Funding for library systems hand, “I think some people have a harder time billions of dollars. Like many New Yorkers, poverty’s impact is also a major concern of our Twenty First with us because we’re not irrelevant,” she adds. Tallon believes that the state financing system and the nature of Century Libraries proposal,” says Dawson, “What they’re seeing now is that we are very needs to be reformed. At the same time, the families.” “and with this year’s serious budget problems, purposeful about the standards and very State Aid committee tries to formulate regula- Some of the maintaining the existing levels of funding for thoughtful about the standards.” tions that are viable in the long term as well as important policies libraries will also be a priority.” consistent from one year to the next—a delicate that the Regents The fact that the Regents have multiple iane O’Neill McGivern is the first nurse balance. have drafted dur- Robert M. Bennett responsibilities gives them “the capacity to bet- to have been appointed to the Board of Regent Tallon is optimistic when it comes to ing his tenure, ter integrate the policy work of the Board DRegents. New York’s progress on educational reform. He Bennett says, include: across all of the educational policy arenas in the She was originally believes that New York is further along than career and technical education options, univer- State,” says Dawson. The Regents’ authority, recruited in 1991 many other states when it comes to complying sal pre-kindergarten, teacher preparation and while spread across a number of areas—K-12, to serve the remain- with the No Child Left Behind regulations, as continuing education requirements, inclusion colleges and universities, professional licens- der of Dr. Jerry some New York laws were basically precursors for special education students, graduation ing, museums, libraries and other cultural insti- Lustig’s seven year to the more recent federal legislation. The State requirements, the New Centuries Libraries pro- tutions—varies significantly from one area to term, and has since is also on the right path when it comes to spe- posal and the nursing shortage study and subse- the next. “Regents’ authority is clearest and been twice re- cial education, according to Tallon. “I think it’s quent recommendations. most sweeping in the K-12 arena,” says elected. For the fair to say that New York is one of the more Regent Bennett believes that the unique Dawson, while more limited in other spheres. past thirty years, aggressive states” concerning the provision of structure of the University of the State of New “However,” he adds, “the Regents have had Regent McGivern services for special needs students, he says, York, singular among U.S. institutions and gov- great success with their existing authority has worked in Diane O’Neill McGivern noting that the number of special education erning bodies, “has the greatest potential to because they are able to use what they have to higher education students earning diplomas has increased in provide a comprehensive array of education gain the voluntary participation of many of the both as a professor recent years. and training services to all seeking educational players across the full range of education are- and an academic administrator. The Regents, Tallon asserts, are a diverse opportunities.” In line with the Regents’ mis- nas.” McGivern is Chair of the Professional group, both geographically and in terms of pro- sion to “raise the level of learning for all New Practice committee and Vice-President of the fessional experience. Tallon hopes to use his Yorkers,” Bennett would like to see “greater erryl Tisch was appointed to the Higher Education committee. The focus of the own background in focus on high need districts, including more Board in 1996. Tisch, who holds a Professional Practice committee, says State government effective partnerships with related State agen- MM.A. in Education from NYU and is McGivern, “is to ensure that New York State to help the Regents cies such as Health, Mental Health, Children currently working towards her doctoral degree citizens have the highest quality, ethical practi- better understand and Families.” Another goal is to “have all chil- at Columbia University Teachers College, has tioners in a wide range if disciplines.” The the Legislature, dren reading at grade level by third grade, focused on education for her entire career, hav- committee takes disciplinary action against and vice versa. He thereby eliminating all level ones on the fourth ing taught first grade, worked in the Jewish individual practitioners, communicates with the would also like grade ELA” (English Language Assesment).” yeshiva system and served as president of a field and anticipates issues of concern. Some of to examine ways not-for-profit organization. her past efforts with the Board include having that health and ames Dawson was appointed to the Board Regent Tisch is chair of the VESID commit- chaired a Blue Ribbon Panel on the future of educational servic- of Regents in 1993 and was reappointed in tee and serves on the State Aid committee, nursing in the state, which examined the nurs- es might be better J2000. He serves as a Distinguished Service which makes recommendations to the legisla- ing shortage. linked in areas Professor in the Center for Earth and ture about how much aid to give to school dis- McGivern has also chaired task forces on such as early child- James R. Tallon, Jr. Environmental Science, State University of tricts, the Cultural Education committee, which teaching and leadership. The work of her lead- hood and adoles- New York, College at Plattsburgh. Dawson has deals with museums, libraries and other cultur- ership group has grown into recommendations cent development, nutrition and behavioral and taught earth science majors, geology majors, al institutions, and the Quality committee, currently being formulated by the Board psychological issues. environmental science majors, and general edu- which oversees the internal governing of the regarding certification requirements for princi- “It’s clear that the future of the state and cation undergraduate courses every year since Board of Regents. pals and school administrators. Many people city’s economy . . . is just anchored in educa- he joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor “New York Sate have offered advice about what the Regents and tional achievement,” says Tallon. The predom- on September in 1970. As a Regent he repre- is probably one of other groups can do “to attract, cultivate and inantly socio-economically determined gaps in sents the Fourth Judicial District of New York the most segregat- retain good leaders,” says McGivern. “Clearly, the educational system, he says, must not be State which includes Washington, Schenectady, ed states when it recognizing good leaders and supporting them tolerated. “There’s a societal imperative to just Montgomery, Fulton, Hamilton, St. Lawrence, comes to provid- in professional environments is central to keep advancing this educational agenda.” Franklin, Clinton, Essex, Warren and Saratoga ing services for improving instruction for students.” counties. These counties constitute about 29 children with dis- While there are numerous other issues that udith Rubin was appointed to the Board in percent of the land surface area of the State of abilities within the the Board is currently examining, and “as March, 2002. She is Chairman of the Board New York with districts ranging from under 20 school system,” important as the individual policies are,” Jof Playwrights Horizons, a not-for-profit to about 9,000 students. Dawson has visited says Tisch, adding McGivern says, “I believe the interconnected- off-Broadway theater that works with under- virtually all of these districts and school that the inclusion ness of our policies is most significant. The graduate theater students at NYU and provides Merryl Tisch buildings. movement has taken relationship of all parts of the University of the paid internships for young people interested in Regent Dawson a hold in the state State of New York is reflected in policies that careers in the arts. currently chairs the and that she expects more progress to be made link areas like libraries and information tech- Rubin herself has Regents State Aid within the coming years. When the Board of nology to curriculum, services to individuals spent most of her Subcommittee, Regents raised the testing requirements for high with disabilities and access to higher educa- career at various which works with school graduates, “we decided [students with tion.” arts-related organi- the staff of the disabilities] should be incorporated into this zations. She has State Aid Work movement of higher standards,” says Tisch, ames R. Tallon, Jr., was elected by the State been a Council Group in the “and, actually, many of them are performing Legislature last March to serve a five year member of the New York State very well.” For lower-functioning children who Jterm on the Board of Regents. “I’m one of National Education may have more severe disabilities, the state has the new kids,” he jokes. While Tallon might be Endowment for the Department to for- put into place an alternative assessment. new to the Board and to the world of educa- Arts and the New mulate a recom- Students with disabilities, she affirms, are now tional policy, he brings with him years of York State Council James Dawson mendation on the receiving the same diplomas that they would administrative and political experience. Tallon on the Arts, Judith Rubin Regents’ state aid have before the policy changed. If they score a currently serves as President of the United President of the to school districts for the Regents’ considera- certain level on competency tests but are unable Hospital Fund, a philanthropic and health serv- 92nd Street Y, and tion. After the Regents’ have decided on a pro- to pass the Regents exams, “they get their spe- ices research organization. From 1975 to 1993 Vice-President of Theatre Communications posal (usually at their December meeting) cial ed diploma.” The real draw of including he was a member of the New York State Group and Public Radio International. members of the Subcommittee assist the special education students in testing practices Assembly. Regent Rubin serves on the Elementary, Commissioner and the Department in inform- as well as general education classrooms, says Regent Tallon serves on the Elementary, Middle, Secondary and Continuing Education ing the Division of the Budget and the Tisch, is having “people start to talk about their Middle, Secondary and Continuing Education committee, as well as the Cultural Education, Legislature about the details of the proposal. In students’ outcomes rather than whether we’re Committee, the VESID committee, the Cultural Quality and Audits committees.# addition, Regent Dawson serves on the complying with standards.” Education committee and the sub-committee Professional Practice Committee, and the The Regents, says Tisch, “are a unique group on State Aid. Each year, Tallon explains, the Elementary/Middle/Secondary/Continuing and a group that ten years ago was tinkering on Regents draft a proposal regarding how much 20 COLLEGES & GRADUATE SCHOOLS ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ JANUARY 2003

An Ongoing Series of Interviews with Deans of Education University Dean at City University of New York: Nicholas Michelli By JOAN BAUM, Ph.D ic nation should reflect and direct the role of ing lives; and that they will become active and appropriate for each district. There are, for In a way, the University Dean for Teacher education, he believes. Historically, the purpos- empathic participants in our democracy. His example, approximately 75 different math pro- Education at The City University of New York es of urban education have been confused. Yes, job? To ensure the very best preparation of grams in the schools and any number of ways (CUNY) Dr. Nicholas M. Michelli has been higher performance on standardized tests is teachers and principals who will instill these to teach literacy. What works? With CUNY preparing for this position—which includes a important but purposes. colleges partnering with neighboring schools, it joint appointment as Professor in the this is not the The timing is will be easier to tell. The dean’s got a lot of University’s Ph.D. program in Urban “purpose” of good. The first promising initiatives under way—“balanced Education—all his life, bringing to it a long education, it is class of teach- literacy,” for instance, which focuses on com- interdisciplinary career in public policy and only an “indi- ers to be gradu- prehension with phonics and other skills taught teacher education. Although Dr. Michelli cator.” The ated under the in the context of meaningful learning, includes retains the title of professor and dean emeritus purposes of new state certi- healthy doses of both phonics and reading at Montclair State University, where he served education have fication stan- comprehension. as Dean of the College of Education and “moral dimen- dards in 2004 Dr. Michelli is especially energized by the Human Services for 20 years, his head and sions” to them, will move into challenge of getting 11,000 certified teachers heart are clearly centered on the “challenge” of and an element the classrooms into the classrooms by September 2003. He overseeing education at the 10 senior colleges of social jus- with a major in smiles, the eyebrows go up but the voice more and 6 community colleges that constitute the tice. Education a subject area. than suggests he is determined to recruit and nation’s largest public urban university. He must be for all Of course, he retain. Approximately 50 percent of new teach- talks about his “vision” for the New York City children “the points out, New ers have been on the job for less than 5 years. schools with an enthusiasm that borders on vehicle by Dean Nicholas Michelli York City is an The dean is understandably critical of past pol- mission but draws on years of practical and which they will “abstraction”; icy to assign novices and uncertified teachers to political expertise. find their way.” the reality is the more challenged schools. He is also Masters work at NYU in African Studies, fol- Children must finally see themselves “as hav- that the New York City education system is an shrewdly optimistic about what higher salaries lowed by a doctorate at Teacher’s College, ing the ability to create knowledge instead of amalgam of different school districts. Changing may effect. His particular charge, he says, is to Columbia University, fired Dr. Michelli’s sense seeing it passed on to them.” This means, he the system means changing schools a district at provide the best possible educators and then of wanting to connect education with national says, that children will have good economic a time. Competition will eventually mean sur- continued on page 33 endeavor, he says. The creation of a democrat- opportunity; that they will have rich and fulfill- vival of the fittest but with a sense of what’s COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY DIRECTORY ① ②③④

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Special Camp Fair on Saturday, February 1, 2003 Preschool Services for 3-5 Year Olds January 29, 2003, 10 AM - 1PM Takacs String Quartet offers summer options for children and teens with The Studio Museum in Harlem special needs. Parents and caregivers of children Seton Hall University (212) 864-4500 x264 Bringing Liberty Science Center to You! Kozlowski Hall Auditorium and teens with disabilities can plan ahead for sum- 144 West 125th St, New York, NY, 10027 mer with the wealth of information offered at the Host LSC at your school, afterschool program, or February 25, 2003, 8 PM The Studio Museum in Harlem invites educators community event. Through assembly shows and $15; $8 for seniors; FREE for students. Seating is 18th annual free Special Camp Fair. 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On a point guard or a shooting guard in the pros,” By JAN AARON the basketball floor there is: “I don’t know an NBA scout scratched his head courtside what happened out there,” St. John’s All- while watching Hatten destroy his defender Atmospheric, interesting and enjoyable fam- American candidate guard Marcus Hatten against Hofstra. “He’s really a “two” (shooting ily entertainment, Evelyn is the true-life saga of whispered softly after the Red Storm dropped guard) with a “one’s” (point guard’s) height an Irish father Desmond Doyle (Pierce an unexpected decision last week to Manhattan and body.” Oh, no, not one of those notorious Brosnan) who battled the Irish government for at Madison Square Garden. “But whatever it ‘tweeners? “A ‘one’? A ‘two’? Ridiculous!” legal custody of his three children in a ground- was, I take responsibility. I am the leader of this Red Storm coach Mike Jarvis thunders. “Is breaking court case in 1953. It’s David and team and, when I got out there, I there a better guard in the coun- Goliath theme might even carry over to class- found myself just going through try? I can’t think of one; Marcus room discussion. the motions.” is a player. He’s going to be a The usually sleek Secret Agent 007, Brosnan How come he couldn’t hit a tremendous force in the NBA.” here convincingly plays a hard-working, per- second gear? “I wish I could Has this scout ever heard of petually poor house painter and decorator and explain it,” he says. “Maybe it Eddie House? Troy Hudson? pub singer with his dad who lives in a Dublin was my biorhythms or some- Allen Iverson? Much like The housing project. When his wife runs off on him thing.” Answer—the league’s Most and their three kids for another man, the church If anything, Hatten has an Valuable Player two years back— and state remove the children and send them to overgrown sense of responsibili- Hatten is a rare two-way player, a different orphanages. While veteran director Dobby appears in Harry’s bedroom ty. He’s a communications major scoring superstar who uses his carrying a “B” average at St. extreme quickness and uncanny with a warning John’s who wants to “go back to athleticism to also play glovelike the neighborhood and work with defense. Who cares if he’s prima- ing to take on the Irish courts. Skeptical kids” should he not make it to rily a shooter who can pass or a Michael Beattie (Stephen Rea), and his Irish- the NBA next year. However, it’s passer who can score? A genius American colleague, Nick Barron (Aidan impossible to imagine Hatten Marcus Hatter drives such as Hatten, that unique player Quinn) take an interest in the case. But it isn’t not playing for pay: there are 348 who feels that the worse the shot until they rope in the retired football champ, active spots in the league—29 the better the chance he has to Thomas Connolly (Alan Bates) and renowned teams, 12 players each—and if this mercurial make it, is unstoppable. barrister, that they stand a chance of revising scoring machine is not among the 348 best He’s proving that now, for the second season the Family Act Law. Quinn as the cool young players in the universe then something’s askew. in a row, as the Red Storm—for better or Yank barrister and Bates as the feisty old Hatten, who honed his game at Tallahassee worse—remains a team that’s all about Hatten. champ are especially fine as is the assured Junior College for two years before coming to With the rest of the Johnnies so raw, defenses young Vavasseur. But it’s Brosnan’s move St. John’s, is both hugely talented and deli- are all geared to stopping him—and they can’t. beyond Bond that impresses most. ciously driven. His movements on the floor are “The Hat”, who was the first first-year player Pierce Brosnan as Desmond Doyle Also, you’ll want to catch those three clever so quirky, so inexorably unique, that he can’t ever to lead the Big East Conference in scoring kids, Harry and best pals spunky Ron and quite recognize, analyze, or even explain them last year (22.8 points per game), is racking up Bruce Beresford doesn’t go too deep in to brainy Hermione, in the charming new Harry himself. So imagine the difficulties his oppo- baskets at an even faster pace this season. examining matters of church and state, he Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. Round two nents must have. Still, Hatten’s not about bragging—he does- meticulously makes a convincing-looking peri- for J.K.Rowling’s beloved series, hits all the Yes, guarding this guy is an atonal nightmare. n’t even like talking too much about himself. od film. high points, sticking carefully to the text. This “I hear music,” Hatten says. “I try to find a Still, his quiet self-possession helps: “That As nine-year Evelyn Doyle, (Sophie time, there’s a sinister elf to give warnings, the beat, a rhythm, and get into a groove. It’s a feel- comes from Baltimore, where I grew up, the Vavasseur), adjusts to life with both good and three kids return to Hogwarts in a flying jalopy, ing, like a creative force possesses me. I just do hard streets,” he smiles. “There, if you act like bad nuns, Desmond first tries unsuccessfully to where the immensely vain Kenneth Branagh something totally instinctively—then, if it you have no confidence, you’re dead. And I’m take his kids back. But then he vows to clean up has been added to its zany faculty. (Evelyn, 94 works, I get to practicing it and add the move to a survivor. I want to get to the next level. I want his own act (he drinks too much) and, with help minutes. PG, released by United Artists; Potter, my repertoire in a conscious manner.” to succeed.” of a spirited barmaid, Bernadette, (Julianna 2hrs 42mins. PG, released by Warner Brothers. At an athletic 6’1”, Hatten’s quicksilver “I know that whenever I’m going to step on Margulies), assembles a legal dream team will- Call 777-FILM.)# game is utterly unpredictable. That’s what the basketball court I have the talent to make a makes him so much fun to watch — and so dif- great contribution. Even if it’s at the highest ficult to decipher. “Can he make it in the level. Even if it’s in the NBA.”#

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Elizabeth Ophals Photo: Jim Belfonabout the government. Photo: Jim Belfon ments, a glossary and a referential workbook was named Principal of 220 educators filled the Faculty House at Columbia University Constitution Translated for Kids (Oakwood for parents and teachers.# the Year, well earned Publishing) is the first ever side-by-side, line- The Rhodes Scholarship

By LEAH BOURNE overall character are all weighed into the final Rhodes Scholarships are one of the most decision. Each year thirty-two American men prestigious and sought after study awards in and women are chosen, and 2002 marked the the world. They offer their recipients the one-hundredth year of the scholarship pro- resources to explore scholastically, study gram. In 2002, 981 applied for the award. overseas, and the financial assistance needed Since 1976 women have been eligible for to research a specific area of study. the award, and in 2002 the Scholars came not The Rhodes Scholarship was established by only from Harvard, but state Universities such British colonialist and philanthropist Cecil as Indiana, Kansas, Minnesota, Utah, and Rhodes in 1902, and it is the oldest interna- Central Florida. Many have had to overcome a tional study award available to American stu- great amount of adversity and have faced real dents. The scholarship provides a master’s or challenges in their lives. In 2002 awards were doctoral degree at Oxford University, given to Marianna Ofusu, a student at Howard acquired in a two to three year period. All of University in Washington who is a Latin the fees and stipends needed to cover expens- American dance champion; and Kamyar es at Oxford are provided by the Scholarship, Cyrus Habib, a student at Columbia and its value is estimated at $30,000. There is University who has a black belt in karate, is an a lengthy process in which the Rhodes accomplished photographer, a downhill skier, Scholars are decided. In order to become a and blind; and Devi Shridhar a student at the Rhodes Scholar students must first be University of Miami, who is fluent in five lan- endorsed by the college or university that they guages, a published author, and he has been attend. Selection committees in each of the admitted to medical school. One of the most fifty states then nominate candidates, who are interesting of the chosen Rhodes Scholars is then reviewed by the District Selection Chesa Boudin, whose parents are both in jail Committees in eight regions of the US. for involvement in the Brink’s robbery in Ultimately the applicants are selected based Rockland County. These new generations of on the criteria laid out by Cecil Rhodes when Rhodes Scholars represent more than the sum he founded the award. Scholastic achieve- of their shining resumes and are mature, ments, physical abilities and energy, integrity, thoughtful, and passionate about a diverse leadership, respectfulness, unselfishness, and array of fields.# JANUARY 2003 ■ FOR PARENTS, EDUCATORS & STUDENTS ■ EDUCATION UPDATE Award 31 Winner Joe Hynes Abraham Lincoln Continued from page 9 Continued from page 5 sympathetic eye on his young questioner and and analytical cognitive skills. Then there are and publicly that its most successful executives al process for me,” admits Schott, in reference nods in agreement about their importance. He the Legal Lives spin-off activities, such as had forgotten, ignored, or, worst, never been to difficult subsequent dealings with the boys, mentions the political opposition in Washington court visits and mock trial competitions, which taught lessons about sharing with others and their parents and the student body as a whole. some years ago and the cuts that were made. “We permit students to compete while taking on var- telling the truth, the public again began to ques- As the school’s namesake implies, Schott must show kids alternatives,” he reiterates. He ious roles as judge, attorneys, witnesses and tion the extent to which schools should shape never loses heart because ethics, honesty and cares so deeply about the issue, he notes, that he jury. Does the program work? Given anecdot- students’ value systems. morality are part of the fabric of his own life as himself goes into churches, synagogues, schools, al evidence, yes, but the D.A. acknowledges Schott, of course, believes that schools do well as in his teachings.# and senior centers to talk about choices kids can the lack of hard data because of confidentiality have a significant role in children’s moral and make. He also started a truancy program that he’s requirements. He is delighted with the pro- spiritual development, as they bear so much McCune proud of. Three years ago, thousands of kids a gram, however, and not just because of the kids influence in a child’s life. “Children come to Continued from page 14 day were not going to school in his borough. He who benefit. He is particularly pleased with, school [and] they fall in love with their teach- way? Perhaps not. In fact, should they? set up five truancy centers led by a social work- and proud of the effects that Legal Lives has ers,” he says. Children are individuals: teachers vary in er. When the police find a truant, the social work- had on his own diversified staff in Brooklyn. Schott also sees a relation between the cur- style...in ways they seek to reach children. er gets in touch with a parent and conversation is About 540 Assistant D.A.s are now involved, rent “ethical crisis”—and he does believe there Such variation might or might not undermine begun. Today, he points out, more than 60 per- adopting schools, mentoring youngsters twice a is a crisis—and education. “There is an igno- the research agenda, while suiting instruction cent of these parents and children come to the month, pro bono, leading discussions on actual rance,” he says, “due to lack of study and lack to individuals. center. Former Mayor Giulliani so admired the cases. “The kids love it . . .and learn.” of presentation in schools, of our ethical or But supposing all of these problems can be program that he put it in all five boroughs. Of course, the indefatigable D.A. has hardly moral heritage in the Western world.” solved. What happens while we wait the 10, Though Legal Lives is now in its 11th year, in abandoned those whose education extends In an assembly with the middle school last 20, or 30 years needed to evaluate basic prac- hundreds of classrooms and hundreds of public beyond the fifth-grade. He continues to serve April, Schott was discussing the corporate tices and their replication? Children can’t wait: and private schools in the City, and is now as adjunct professor at three law schools— scandals with the students. They were having a They grow up every day. So again it falls to the replicated in seven states, it still has Joe Fordham, St. John’s and Brooklyn—and to difficult time coming up with reasons that busi- teachers. William James identified teaching as Hynes’s full heart and head. As if for the first accept numerous speaking engagements. Not to ness people would do such things. Sensing a an art. Let’s look to science for help, but con- time, though it must be for the thousandth, he mention the work of his office, trying over teaching moment, Schott reached into his wal- tinue to ply our art.# glowingly mentions the Legal Lives radio show 100,000 cases a year. He must be doing some- let, pulled out a $20 bill and placed it in the Dr. Lorraine McCune is a professor at the on WNYE 91.5 FM, which runs through June thing right in pursuing his mission: Four of his middle of the floor. The students stared, slack- Rutgers University Graduate School of 11, 2003 and the curriculum booklet of trial five children have become lawyers. As for that jawed. Education. She can be reached at www.gener- materials, Choices, with its interactive lessons fifth, she’s a social worker, but in Joe Hynes’s Then three boys dove for the cash. alcreation.com in the “Ask Dr. McCune” sec- on the law that are designed to develop critical world, Justice commands both.# “That was the beginning of a real education- tion, or at www.educationupdate.com

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I wanted to do more.” The United States York University (NYU) Child make a difference in the world.’ You really Public Health Service had a program training Study Center under the direc- can’t ask much more in life.” Physician Assistants—and not an easy one, torship of Dr. Harold Simons, as a Physician Assistant (P.A.) at either. “They told me, ‘you are a mother with a Koplewicz, Professor of New Dorp High School on Staten Island, couple of kids, you won’t have the time, you’ll Medicine at the NYU Medical touches many lives. “In my job you have high never make it’,” says Simons. “I said ‘let me School. continues to serve as points every single day,” she says. “You do a worry about that.’ an invaluable resource to New lot of hugging, a lot of kissing—teenagers are Physician Assistants, as opposed to nurses, York City area grandparents. like that. But, really, every time a student are experts in a particular area of medicine, The Council was established comes to me and says something like “I want to always working under the direction of a physi- to provide a forum for grand- thank you for taking care of my girlfriend” or cian, whereas Nurse Practitioners are inde- parents to discuss and receive ‘I’m now ready to follow the diet log you told pendent workers. P.A.s can prescribe drugs, information and advice about me about two years ago for my diabetes’, it’s a give injections, and, in New York State at least, normal childhood develop- (L-R) Susan Schwartz, Director of Institute for Learning victory.” can do anything delegated to them by a doctor. ment and specific generational and Academic Achievement; Maureen Cogan, Founder “People are very scared of giving children Though still a somewhat obscure profession to issues. Maureen Cogan, Grandparents Council; Eva Cooper, member of autonomy in any form—so teenagers often tell the general public, “P. A.s have been around for M.S.W., a founding board Grandparents Council us what they don’t tell anyone else, including about 30 years, basically developing as a sepa- member of the Child Study their parents,” adds Simons. “What we want to rate discipline from nursing as an offshoot of Center and herself a grand- do is develop better continuity and self-control the Vietnam war,” says Simons. mother of three, serves as the liaison to the kept under wraps. “After all” said one grand- in the students. And if we can have that type of Simons’ program, besides taking care of the Council meetings. Recently, Eva Cooper, a mother, “These are my grandchildren, not my close communication, that’s half the battle 1,800 New Dorp students, is also training col- member of the Grandparents Council, gra- children and I don’t have the authority to dic- won.” lege student P.A. residents who intend to enter ciously hosted a group of sixteen at her home, tate.” Simons’ program, run by Staten Island the profession in the future. “To prepare for to listen to a talk by Susan Schwartz, a staff The grandmothers are clearly involved, intel- University Hospital, is the only one of its kind becoming a P.A., it has to be almost all hands- member of the Child Study Center. Schwartz ligent and sensitive. Grandfathers were missing in the borough. It deals with 14 different areas on,” she says. “There’s no such thing as dis- spoke about the tests currently being used for however and should certainly consider attend- of care for New Dorp’s 1,800 students, includ- tance training on the internet for this profes- both private and public school admission. ing future meetings. ing birth control, health and sexuality, school sion. It’s all about dealing with people—and at Grandparents participated in a vigorous dis- Beginning in February, the Council will host counseling, smoking, vision, blood pressure an extremely sensitive age, too.” cussion about the pros and cons of testing as a Spring Lecture Series at the Center’s 215 screening, referral to outside agencies, and AP.A. in adolescent medicine can communi- well as their own uniques perspectives on the Lexington Avenue location. The cost is $150 complete medical checkups. In order for the cate on an intimate level and be profoundly disproportionate emphasis and pressure of the for three meetings. To sign up, please contact clinic to be able to treat the child, parents must involved with unique teenage problems. And, testing process. Several grandparents con- Marie Mompoint at (212) 263-3653. For addi- give their consent for care separately in each thanks to New York State law, the Physician curred that despite their great love for their tional information about the NYU Child Study area. “Most give a general consent—and that is Assistant can do the job in complete confidence grandchildren, voicing displeasure should be Center, visit www.AboutOurKids.org.# a great thing because this School Health Clinic as well. “We ask questions doctors often don’t has been able to increase the number of stu- even think about and we pass no moral judg- dents who finish school,” she says. “And that’s ment,” says Simons. The vast number of stu- Lessons Learned because we intimately address every issue of dents from foreign countries, about half the adolescence. Thus we’re able to deal with areas population at New Dorp, present an extra chal- By JOAN WASHINGTON ing time as the of mental or physical health that often prevent lenge. “The cultural and religious differences The special needs children of PS 811Q teachers calmly kids from graduating—and make a timely can be enormous,” says Simons. “It’s difficult Marathon School wanted to do something pos- tried to explain intervention.” for the kids. Often it’s their first time in the itive to honor the heroes and those who lost that sometimes the The Clinic has been doing its essential work U.S. and things that were taboo before are now their lives on September 11, 2001. respect we show for 12 years now, but with the City budget cuts right out in the open. But then they have to go After a heartwarming and moving assembly to others is not no one knows how much longer it can remain home, to another world, if you will. So we must program inside the auditorium, which included always returned. in existence. “That’s the terrible reality—our be able to listen to their conflict and try to poetry readings, patriotic songs and a slide Discussions about funds have been cut severely over the years and mediate it. show of everyday heroes, several classes went property, vandal- the Health Care system for adolescents stinks,” “A couple of months ago a new student from to the front of the school building on Marathon ism and theft fol- says Simons. “There’s one program like this in Liberia, came to see us,” says Simons. “Her Parkway for a tree planting ceremony as a trib- lowed and contin- every borough. In an ideal world, there would birth certificate said she was 16 years old. She ute to those who lost their lives and to make ued throughout the be a school-based health center such as this in looked 40. We examined her and talked to her sure we never forget. day. Joan Washington every single school.” about things that needed to be talked about. The children, all of whom have severe dis- When city offi- Simons, who has been deeply involved with Then I saw her again last week and she looked abilities, planted the tree and carefully placed cials learned that caring for others since her early childhood—“I fresh, happy and wonderful—like a real six- small American flags around it representing the children’s memorial had been stolen, they always used to bring injured pets or people teen-year old. every class in our school. You can imagine our quickly provided a new tree. While the second home, driving my parents crazy” she says— “It’s small victories like this that I experience dismay upon returning to school the next morn- tree cannot replace the first, the students have earned a bachelors’ degree in nursing from every day. It’s small victories that make it all ing and finding a hole in the ground where the learned that when bad things happen, there are Cornell University. But after working for the worthwhile.”# blue spruce was planted just hours before! good people out there who will try to help.# The lessons learned on this day shifted from Joan Washington is principal of PS 811Q, the tributes and remembrance to trust and betrayal. Marathon School. The children were visibly upset during the bus- Geography Corner By CHRIS ROWAN Constitution, David Rice Atchison, President Pro Which State produced a U. S. President who Tempore of the Senate, filled in as President until served for only one day? the following day. His tour of duty was so Who was the “President?” When did he serve? uneventful that most historians didn’t bother to Answer: Kentucky. The State produced David count him among the ranks of our Presidents. Rice Atchison, who served on March 4, Senator Atchison was born in Frogtown, 1849. Kentucky in 1807, 15 years after Kentucky was Background: From 1793 through 1933, the fourth admitted to the Union as a state, but he represent- of March was set aside for Presidential inaugura- ed Missouri in the Senate. (Missouri shares a tions. The term of President James K. Polk border with Kentucky). expired on Sunday, March 4, 1849. But President Next time: Which city in the Western Hemisphere elect Zachary Taylor refused to take the oath of was once known as a “short cut to Africa?” office on the Sabbath. In accordance with the When was it most recently used for that purpose? EDUCATION UPDATE MetroBEAT JANUARY 2003 • 33 New York City Is Gay Rights Bill Ends Doing Better With Less On Bright Note Focus Now on Renewed Push for Dignity for All Students Bill

By MAYOR MICHAEL R. BLOOMBERG By ASSEMBLYMAN STEVEN SANDERS now use the City’s web site to learn about not add any questions on bias harassment to During the current fiscal crisis, City agencies youngsters in foster care who need permanent, In mid December, after ten years of no action this year’s YRBS despite assurances to the con- can’t afford to operate at anything less than top loving homes. Senior citizens can find by the State Senate on “SONDA”—the Sexual trary for over two years. In response to that efficiency. Over the last year, we’ve met that out about the range of government benefits Orientation Non-discrimination Act, which I announcement, I had several conversations challenge. We’ve reduced City spending by they qualify for. And in one quick visit to sponsored and saw passed in the Assembly ten with the State Education Department to urge $2.3 billion. And by making City government www.nyc.gov/finance, you can pay water bills times, the State Senate finally allowed the bill reconsideration of the matter. The Dignity for more innovative, technologically adept, citi- and property and business taxes, track down a to come to a vote. The bill passed and was All Students Coalition along with the Empire zen-friendly and better managed, we’ve towed automobile, and pay-or contest-parking signed into law later that day by the Governor. State Pride Agenda and other members of the improved many services New Yorkers rely on. tickets. This is a glorious achievement in New York Coalition held a press conference on the steps Take health care. Under Health and Hospitals The City’s Department of Information State history and in the fight for civil rights. of the SED protesting the decision and asking Corporation President Dr. Ben Chu, our City’s Technology and Telecommunications (DoITT) Today equal opportunity and freedom from fear the SED to reconsider. public hospitals have become national leaders has helped introduce many of these improve- and discrimination have been secured for hun- “SED was right to hear the arguments of the in using technology that improves patient serv- ments. In addition, by sharing its computer dreds of thousands of New Yorkers. Enclaves experts and advocates about the pressing need ices while also cutting taxpayer costs. infrastructure with other City agencies, and by of bigotry and ignorance have been closed. No for this data,” said Pride Agenda’s legislative Last month, for example, HHC finished revising and renegotiating the City’s tele- longer will gay or lesbian or bisexual New director, Ross Levi. “The over 155 member installing technology that digitally creates and phone service plans, DoITT has saved taxpay- Yorkers—including students—be second-class organizations of the statewide Dignity for All stores x-ray images at all its facilities. ers millions of dollars this year. citizens. Students Coalition are to be congratulated for The effects are nothing short of revolution- We’ve instituted other cost-saving efficien- While the State Senate should have acted their tenacity. We also commend our elected ary. In the past, it typically took 24 to 48 hours cies that don’t require anything more high-tech long ago, this is still a sweet victory for justice, officials who advocated with SED for the for doctors to retrieve x-ray images for exami- than a calculator and a sense of basic fairness. equality and civil liberties. We must acknowl- inclusion of these questions, especially nation. Today, the new Picture Archiving Example: The City’s use of vehicles. This year, edge the veterans of the Stonewall Rebellion Assemblyman Steve Sanders who simply Communications (PACS) system makes such we’ve taken more than 640 City vehicles and the courageous New Yorkers, men and wouldn’t take no for an answer.” images available within four minutes. The off the road and put them on the auction women, past and present, who led this crusade The YRBS, a federally funded, state adminis- images are sharper and more detailed; PACS block. We’ve also reduced the number of City for equality and to end discrimination based on tered survey, contains core questions created by also allows doctors throughout the HHC sys- parking permits by 30%, and cut their duration actual or perceived sexual orientation for all the federal government designed to gather data tem to review and consult on the same image. in half. This unclogs congested City streets, these years. I also recognize that our work is about the safety and health environment for By increasing productivity, PACS is expected speeding the flow of traffic. And unless not done. Discrimination against any group or high school aged youth. States are free to add to save HHC some $11 million annually. they’re on official business, there’s no reason individual based on a “what” the person is, is questions of their own to gather data on related HHC also has instituted the systemwide com- City vehicles can be parked anyplace while un-American and unjust. subjects. puterized ordering of prescriptions and lab millions of other drivers pay for their parking. I commend Speaker Silver for his unfailing It is my hope that in the new year, we will tests. Test results are now available in hours or, Our public safety agencies have written high- leadership on this bill, Assemblymembers follow these important victories with Senate in emergency cases, even minutes. The possi- profile success stories this year. Even with Deborah Glick and Richard Gottfried for their action on the Dignity for All Students bill bility of errors in prescribing medication has 2,000 fewer officers than a year ago, the NYPD tireless work, and the bill’s many other long which I sponsored in the Assembly and which been dramatically reduced. Bottom line: has kept crime rates going down, and the supporters, and the late Assemblyman Bill passed overwhelmingly in 2002. Dignity Patients get faster and better treatment at sub- FDNY has reduced its response time to fires. Passannante, who made history by introducing would prohibit harassment against all students stantially lower costs to the City. Those aren’t isolated achievements. Many the first SONDA way back in 1971. in public schools, including harassment based More City services are also available on-line. other City agencies are not only doing more In another recent development, the State on a person`s actual or perceived race, color, For example, potential adoptive parents can with less — they’re doing better with less.# Education Department (SED) agreed to include national origin, ethnic group, religion, religious questions relating to bias harassment and bully- practice, disability, sexual orientation, gender, ing on the annual Youth Risk Behavior Survey or sex. (YRBS). The YRBS is administered to students All students need a safe, welcoming and Dean Michelli across New York State and is a critical vehicle affirming environment in school in order to Continued from page 20 to assess what risks students are facing. concentrate on their academic and personal SED will be including two new questions in growth. They should never have to be preoc- support them with professional development audio/video conferencing between schools and the YRBS: one which asks students if they have cupied by the threat or actual occurrence of wherever it’s needed. He points with pride to colleges that will allow teacher preparation been called names, teased, harassed or attacked harassment or discrimination, be it verbal or particular initiatives in teacher preparation classes to observe in real time “the real world.” either at or on the way to school, and a second physical, either from school employees or fel- such as “cultural passports,” which he hopes And then, of course, there is the continuing which asks what the student thought the reason low students. The Dignity for All Students Act will connect the colleges (both senior and connection of colleges with their community was for the harassment. Students will be able would promote civility among students and community colleges) with institutions all over schools, probably at the heart of improving to choose from a list of possible motivations, between students and teachers. It will also help the city that may enhance curricula, along with teaching preparation. including gender, race, disability, sexual orien- create an atmosphere where learning is para- a long standing commitment to work with the The discussion with the dean barely touches tation, language, age, economic status, intelli- mount and distractions to learning are mini- Lincoln Center Institute and the American on other connections, many of which have to gence, dress, country of origin, religion and mized. Museum of Natural History. The passport is “a do with his determination to ensure strong sup- height or weight. Students can choose as many Steven Sanders is chairman of the NYS great idea,”he says, and suggests how many port at federal, state, and city levels for enact- categories as are applicable, and are also able to Assembly’s Committee on Education. You can poorer urban school districts are a lot like rural ing the promises of urban education. More specify any other cause not listed. e-mail him at [email protected] or districts in being deprived of opportunities to than once, he articulates his belief that the fate In September, SED had stated its intention to phone him at (212) 979-9696.# expose prospective teachers to the arts. of the city, of the country, depends on the suc- Another initiative noted by Dr. Michelli is an cess of the city’s public schools. A published idea launched by philanthropist and former author on the subject, a member of various CUNY Board of Trustees Vice Chairman Edith professional boards and committees, and an LiteraryLiterary RiddlesRiddles Everett—a “school operating officer” program award winner for his dedication to teacher edu- By CHRIS ROWAN which provides a kind of chief operating offi- cation, Dean Nicholas Michelli, a former Question: A certain author described some-

cer who will oversee various non-academic social studies teacher and a semi-pro drummer thing as “…the thing with feathers, that Answer: (1891). Poems in published was It 254) (Poem

” feathers. with thing the is “Hope poem: her in , matters in the schools, such as bus schedules, (with a recent gig at a major conference with perches in the soul.” Who was the author? hope

Emily Dickinson (1830 – 1886), describing 1886), – (1830 Dickinson Emily cafeteria, and testing, thus freeing up princi- his CUNY Graduate School colleagues), is What were they describing? In which piece of Answer: pals to assume full pedagogical leadership. prepared to meet the beat of the times. Maybe work does this description appear? And when Also high on the dean’s list is two-way even set it.# was it published? 34 MUSEUMS AS EDUCATORS ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ JANUARY 2003

NASA in NYC Seeks Students and Faculty AWorld of Chocolate Returns to The

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) will be implemented during the academic year. Everett Children’s Adventure Garden is formulating a NYC Research Initiative Faculty development, content seminars and (NYCRI) Summer 2003. High school and col- informal education seminars will be provided. lege students and faculty will work along side The following websites contain the require- at NY Botanical Garden graduate students and NASA scientists (at the ments and applications for NASA funded stu- It may be cold outside, but it’s warm in the of how the young Mayan princess “Morning NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies dent and teacher programs. Those who wish to William and Lynda Steere Discovery Center at Star” created vanilla—the “nectar of the gods.” (GISS) in NYC) or the Principal Investigators participate in the NYCRI should request to be the Everett Children’s Adventure Garden and in School’s Out Week @ A World of of NASA funded research projects (at col- assigned to GSFC or GISS. the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. Marking its Chocolate—February 15 through 23, 2003 leges/universities within a 50-mile radius of NASA Summer HS Research Apprentice third year, AWorld of Chocolate is a two Because kids are off from school this week, GISS). GISS research scholars will be involved Program (SHARP): month celebration when children learn the his- The Garden offers more fun activities so fami- in current and global climate change research. http://www.nasasharp.com Deadline is tory of chocolate’s beginnings in the rain lies can visit every day and still not run out of Participants assigned to a college/university February 10, 2003 forests of South and Central America, and its things to do. In addition to the popular World of will conduct earth science, space science, bio- NASA Undergraduate Student Research discovery by the Mayans. Hear how chocolate Chocolate program, special activities include logical/physical or aerospace technology Program (USRP): evolved from a bitter, cold drink to today’s crafting candy boxes for chocolate treats, mak- research. http://education.nasa.gov/usrp/ Deadline is sweet hot chocolate treat. This program is for ing chocolate candy with molds, making and Faculty participants will develop learning January 27, 2003.# school groups during the week and families in tasting chocolate leaves, and taste-testing dif- units, based on their summer research, which the afternoons and during weekends and holi- ferent kinds of chocolate. days. New—Spices, Scents & Salves Exhibit— AWorld of Chocolate: January 11–March going on now through April 2003 30, 2003 A new exhibit in the Bendheim Global Direct connection by PATH to Hudson-Bergen MAKE “BACK-TO-SCHOOL” Light Rail—Liberty State Park Station Kids’ taste buds are stirred up when they sip Greenhouse at the Everett Children’s AN ADVENTURE AT a Mayan chocolate drink and discover that Adventure Garden invites children to learn how LIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER ancient chocolate is different from today’s hot preserved plants are used in a variety of ways. chocolate. Children grind and taste real choco- Children use their senses and curiosity to learn Teachers: Who says the beginning of the late seeds and add spices like chili powder, cin- about the myriad uses of preserved plants in the school year isn’t the right time for field trips? Certainly not Liberty Science Center! namon, and vanilla to make a special recipe. home environment. Take advantage of the LOWEST school They also play an ancient Mayan barter game, Ongoing: group rates for the year, and these fantastic traveling exhibitions and films in the using cacao seeds as money. Children learn all An ideal destination to enjoy in any season, IMAX® Theater. about the history of chocolate and visit the families and school groups visit the Everett great cacao tree, Theobroma cacao, or “food of Children’s Adventure Garden and participate in Current Exhibitions: the gods,” in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. the many ongoing programs. Set against an Psychology: Parents take your children after school and on amazing landscape and garden galleries—chil- It’s More Than You Think the weekends, teachers sign up your school dren learn indoors at the Discovery Center (Sept. 28, 2002 - January 12, 2003) group today! where a host of activities offers hands-on learn- Do people everywhere have the same emotions? How do children understand In addition to chocolate, we offer a special ing about plant science in a fun and engaging their world? How do people develop and program where children learn the story of the way. Children investigate what’s in the use language? Is it best to cooperate or vanilla orchid with activities for families and Discovery Boxes, play with plant puzzles, compete? Investigate these questions and more at over 17 interactive experiments school groups. Running in conjunction with the explore plant parts under the microscopes in designed to introduce students to the Garden’s Celebration of Orchids (February the Lab at the Discovery Center, and use the breadth, depth and diversity of more than 28th–March 30th), children discover that vanil- computer to play a plant game. As always, the 100 years of psychological research. Minutes away from New York City, la comes from the seedpod of an orchid plant, Garden encourages children to look, touch, adjacent to the Statue of Liberty Kid Stuff: Vanilla planifolia and that the plant has an explore, question, and discover just like real and Ellis Island National Monuments Great Toys From Our Childhood unusual means of pollination. They use their scientists.# (May 25, 2002 - January 6, 2003) senses to experience the heavenly scent of fresh For information on Garden hours: (718) If you built it, played it, or created it as a Discover three themed floors: kid, chances are that it will be part of this vanilla and taste vanilla flavored products. In 817-8700 or http://www.nybg.org/ Invention, Health and Environment traveling exhibition. The exhibits are a addition, they examine vanilla beans with hand The Everett Children’s Adventure Garden has remarkable presentation of more than 200 lenses and microscopes and observe live vanil- been made possible by the leadership generos- of the most popular toys of the past fifty years, from Tonkas and Tinkertoys, to la orchids. Come to storytelling at the Everett ity of Edith and Henry Everett. Experience 250 hands-on exhibits Raggedy Anns and Radio Flyers. The Children’s Adventure Garden and hear the tale Sciences of Toys, an onsite demonstration Get close to the action in the largest designed to bring science to this exhibi- ® tion, will debut in September! It will pro- IMAX Dome Theater in the United States vide some fun, interactive learning expe- riences on topics such as polymers, and the mechanics of an Etch-A-Sketch! THE Studio Museum IN Harlem Lunch facilities available In the IMAX® Dome Theater: Call 201.200.1000 Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees (October 12, 2002 - October 2003) PROGRAMS FOR EDUCATORS for school group rates Take a giant screen journey into the hearts and minds of wild chimpanzees The Studio Museum in Harlem acknowledges teachers as professionals at the center of edu- with the world’s most famous field cation, whose significant contributions have the most profound effect on the lives and learn- researcher, Dr. Jane Goodall. The film ing of students. The array of programs at SMH designed for educators reflects the Museum’s weaves together the story of a chim- panzee community and the work of scien- commitment to reaching beyond the traditional classroom and museum visit by responding tists seeking to understand the lives of to the increasing demand for quality arts education from an interdisciplinary perspective. these remarkable creatures. Jane Goodall’s Wild Chimpanzees chronicles Dr. Goodall’s more than 40 years of leg- Open House for Educators Teaching & Learning Workshops for K-12 Educators endary work among the chimps at Gombe SMH invites educators and school This workshop provides the unique opportunity to r nte Park in Africa, and leaves viewers with Ce administrators to the Museum for study works by African American artists from the ate olg an important message about conservation C y th a a special opportunity to view the early part of the 20 century in two concurrent rw and an awareness of chimps fragile exis- te a current exhibitions and learn special exhibitions: Challenge of the Modern: W tence in the wild. Y N about our new programs for African American Artists 1925—1945, at The Studio Lewis & Clark: Great Journey West (May 18, 2002 - February 2003) students and educators. Educators Museum in Harlem and African American Artists, Relive an amazing tale of discovery and and administrators will be able to 1929-1945: Prints, Drawings and Paintings from exploration as National Geographic meet and discuss ideas with their the Metropolitan Museum of Art at the Metropolitan Films brings to life the first crossing of what would become the United States. colleagues, schedule group visits Museum of Art. Materials, lunch and transportation With careful research and meticulous to the Museum, and attend between museums are provided. Instructors: Jonell recreations, this scientific expedition Jamie, The Studio Museum in Harlem and Randy lives again on the big screen. Two hun- introductions to the exhibitions. dred years after their epic journey, go Refreshments will be served. 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