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Mailing Address: Race, Law, Justice: Closing the School to Prison Pipeline 695 Park Avenue, Ste. E1509, NY, NY 10065 Email: [email protected] www.EducationUpdate.com By Chief Justice Judith Kaye discipline and court and students receiving special education ser- Tel: 212-650-3552 Fax: 212-410-0591 cannot imagine a more important involvement do this? Let vices are being suspended for offenses that do PUBLISHERS: subject than Race, Law and Justice: me briefly share with you not require, but simply permit, suspension. Pola Rosen, Ed.D., Adam Sugerman, M.A. Strategies for Closing the School to my own journey regard- Similarly, at the federal level, there is growing ADVISORY COUNCIL: Prison Pipeline. ing this issue. awareness of the huge importance of this issue. Mary Brabeck, Dean, NYU Steinhardt School of Culture, Ed., and Human Dev.; Christine Cea, Closing the school-to-prison pipeline saves Shortly after leaving the In the summer of 2011, Attorney General Eric Ph.D., NYS Board of Regents; Shelia Evans- lives, and it saves families. Closing the school- bench, at my law firm Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan Tranumn, Chair, Board of Trustees, Casey Family to-prison pipeline is the very future of our City, we convened a program announced the “Supportive School Discipline Programs Foundation; Charlotte K. Frank, our State, our nation, whether viewed in the called Promoting School-Justice Partnerships: Initiative,” a collaborative project between the Ph.D., Sr. VP, McGraw-Hill; Joan Freilich, heat of emotion as a parent, grandparent or Keeping Kids in School and Out of Courts. Departments of Justice and Education that will Ph.D., Trustee, Barnard College & College of New Rochelle; Andrew Gardner, Sr. Manager, concerned citizen, or in the cold light of logic, Police Commissioner Ray Kelly, then-Chancel- address the school-to-prison pipeline and the BrainPOP Educators; Cynthia Greenleaf, Ph.D., as a lawyer, educator, researcher or government lor Joel Klein, New York State Chancellor of disciplinary policies and practices that can Sr. Assoc., Heidrick & Struggles; Augusta S. official. the Board of Regents Merryl Tisch and several push students out of school and into the justice Kappner, Ph.D., President Emerita, Bank St. Plainly we need everyone at the table, don’t of you were there. Our goal was to kindle a system. College; Harold Koplewicz, M.D., Pres., Child we? We need the statisticians and logicians— conversation about practices and policies that In March 2012, we convened the first Mind Institute; Ernest Logan, Pres., CSA; Cecelia McCarton, M.D., Dir., The McCarton Center; we know the importance of being “evidence research was telling us was all wrong for kids. National Leadership Summit on School Justice Michael Mulgrew, Pres., UFT; Eric Nadelstern, based.” We need the effective voice of gov- We see so many suspensions and arrests, and Partnerships: Keeping Kids in School and Out Prof. of Educational Leadership, Teachers College; ernment. And we need deeply caring human ultimately court involvement, for incidents that of Court. The Summit opened with top state Anthony Polemeni, Ph.D., Dean, Touro College; beings concerned for school safety but yet able often used to result in a trip to the principal’s judicial and education officials focused on Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D., Dean of Education, to acknowledge the unintended disastrous con- office. Today it’s juvenile delinquency and current juvenile justice and school discipline Mercy College; Jerrold Ross, Ph.D., Dean, School of Education, St. John’s University; Dr. John sequences of zero tolerance school discipline. criminal court judges. That led to a Task Force, trends, and it closed two days later with Marian Russell, Head, Windward School; David Steiner, Not long ago I was reminded of a song from which will soon be issuing its recommenda- Wright Edelman, founder of the Children’s Ph.D., Dean of Education, Hunter College; Ronald my youth, “The House I Live In”— it’s in the tions. Defense Fund, reciting the devastating statis- P. Stewart, Head, York Prep; Adam Sugerman, Paul Robeson songbook—the title of a new During this same time, growing attention has tics on what is in fact not the dream but the Publisher, Palmiche Press documentary on the subject of mass incarcera- focused on the school-to-prison pipeline. The nightmare for far too many parents and children ASSOCIATE EDITORS: tion, especially its impact on young families. unanimous conclusion is that school-to-prison today—children suspended, expelled, arrested, Heather Rosen, Rob Wertheimer If you are lucky, or more accurately unlucky, pipeline produces nothing good. Indeed, it often at school. The message was clear, as it ASSISTANT EDITOR: I might even sing a few bars of the song for is the most toxic of all pipelines. A ground- is today: we need to reroute those kids, we Jennifer MacGregor you. My point is that today’s picture of young breaking study was released by the Center on need to plug the pipeline, we need to rekindle ASSISTANT TO THE PUBLISHER: people—in particular huge numbers of young State Governments: “Breaking Schools Rules the American dream. To paraphrase Frederick Erica Anderson Black men, ousted from school to a life of A Statewide Study On How School Discipline Douglass, “It’s better to build strong children GUEST COLUMNISTS: violent crime and prison—that is distinctly Relates To Students’ Success And Juvenile than repair broken men and women.” Dr. Carole G. Hankin, Arthur Katz, Esq., Chief NOT “the house I live in.” That is NOT what Justice Involvement.” It’s a study of 900,000 Happily, I can report that the Summit drew Justice Judith Kaye, Dr. Alfred S. Posamentier, America is to me—a land of opportunity that students in Texas conducted over six years, teams from across the nation. Imagine: judges Cynthia Stein, M.D., Starr Sackstein, Emily Wood drew my own parents from their shtetl to these covering their middle and high school years, and educators at the table together –all of us SENIOR REPORTERS: shores, convinced that here their children might establishing once and for all what most of us at the table together. Their dedication to this Jacob Appel, M.D., J.D.; Jan Aaron; Joan Baum, Ph.D.; Vicki Cobb; Sybil Maimin; Lisa Winkler get a good education and enjoy a better life. believed to be true: suspension and expulsion initiative underscores their recognition of the What is America to me? Opportunity defines from school significantly increases the likeli- devastating connection between school disci- REPORTERS: America—or at least it did. We need to restore hood of students repeating a grade, dropping pline policies and the juvenile and the criminal Ethan Arberman, Dominique Carson, Valentina Cordero, Sam Fulmer, Gillian Granoff, Richard our image, our distinction, as a land of oppor- out of school entirely, and becoming involved justice systems, and the opportunity we have— Kagan, Jamie Landis, Lydia Liebman, Rich tunity, not a land of mass incarceration. And in the juvenile justice system. The report also working together—to effect change. Monetti, Giovanny Pinto, Yuridia Peña continued on page 8 how does addressing the confluence of school shows that disproportionately Black students BOOK REVIEWS: Merri Rosenberg MEDICAL EDITOR: LETTERS TO THE EDITOR In This Issue Herman Rosen, M.D. Adelaide, Australia Editorial ...... 5 MODERN LANGUAGE EDITOR: 18-year-old dyslexic son has it in his room Adam Sugerman, M.A. Dr. Sally Shaywitz, Yale U School of to refer to as his “bible”. 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Laurie M. Tisch: President, Women Shaping History 2013 2 2 2 Laurie M. Tisch Illumination Fund For the past fifteen years, Education Update has been honoring women Inspiration for career path: who have achieved extraordinary things throughout their lives. They come I’m very lucky to come from a strong fam- from diverse backgrounds and a range of fields, but are unified in their ily tradition of philanthropy. I was brought up in a house where philanthropy was part of the shared value of education and the value of imparting knowledge to future fabric and where my parents were incredibly generations. Their paths, careers and accomplishments are remarkable and generous, both financially and with their time. inspirational. I can’t remember a time when I didn’t think We asked each of them to answer the following questions: about how to use my time and resources to 1. What has inspired your current career path? help others. Later on, I got involved in spe- cific organizations and really began to dive 2. What are some of the greatest challenges you’ve faced? in. That gave me the opportunity to work with How did you overcome them? nonprofits, as a Board and community leader 3. What are some of the accomplishments you are most proud of? at institutions like the Children’s Museum of 4. Who have been the most influential mentors in your life? Manhattan, the Center for Arts Education, and Teachers College. 5. What would you describe as a turning point in your life? Those were formative experiences as I 6. What are your goals for the future? thought about philanthropy. One thing that I level the playing field. I didn’t want to create learned from those organizations is that some- an arts foundation, or an education founda- times traditional program boundaries are too tion, or a health foundation so that who you The organizations I’ve been involved in are helped launch called the NYC Green Cart limiting. The Children’s Museum combines the are and what neighborhood you live in doesn’t also extremely committed to measurement and Initiative. It was one of the foundation’s first arts, early childhood education and health. The determine what you can become. I wanted to impact. That, too, was a learning for me. I am big grants. When I started the foundation, Center for Arts Education, obviously, champi- think more holistically. The foundation’s inter- most interested in action and measuring results, I honestly didn’t know a lot about issues ons the arts as fundamental to learning. And est areas are multifaceted, and many programs because strategy and impact are essential. of food access and health, and about what TC is a leader in many cross-cutting fields, all cross over traditional categories. For example, Fundamentally, I need to understand whether people now talk about as “food deserts.” The grounded in research and learning. the NYC Green Cart Initiative advances health our programs can actually change lives and research showed extreme health disparities When I started the Illumination Fund, I and economic development, and it even led help move the needle, regardless of which area across neighborhoods — including diabetes, wasn’t exactly sure which issues I wanted to to educational and cultural programs such as or discipline they are in. heart disease, and obesity rates — and wide focus on, but I knew it was about what I call a photography commission and the Moveable Challenges and resolutions: gaps in access to healthy foods. In 2008, the “access and opportunity.” Living in New York, Feast exhibit at the Museum of the City of There’s no shortage of important causes and NYC Department of Health was in the pro- you see massive disparities. I wanted to help New York. good organizations. One of the biggest chal- cess of developing a number of programs to lenges has been to determine out where we can increase access to healthy foods in underserved have a real impact. neighborhoods. The City came up with an idea Every foundation faces the question of how to use street vending as a strategy to reach to measure the overall impact of its work, both neighborhoods where diet-related diseases are in terms of the success of individual grants and high and there’s limited availability of healthy the cumulative effect of its grants programs foods, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables. and initiatives. We all want to know if our No city had ever thought to use street vending money is making a difference. as a targeted strategy like this. But evaluating effectiveness is not just a mat- The results have been extraordinary. Now APPROVED BY THE NYC BOE TO BOOK YOUR TRIPS ter of “did it work?” It’s essential to be realistic there are about 500 Green Carts in neighbor- Day Trips about the size of your grant relative to the size hoods across the City, and the program has of the problem. You can’t demand that City created about 900 new jobs. Other major cities Multiple Day Trips Harvest explain how your $15,000 grant has like Philadelphia, Chicago and even London Campus Tours & More changed hunger levels in New York City, or have expressed interest in modeling local ini- International Trips ask a community environmental group how the tiatives after the Green Carts program. green roof you funded has changed the trajec- It was a great accomplishment for the Fund tory of global warming. to be present at every step along the way, from Washington-Boston-HersheyPark-Six Flags and more.... At the Illumination Fund, evaluation is part collaborating with partnership organizations Custom Student trips to any destination! of our dialogue with the grantee or prospective to visiting the carts to working collabora- grantee from the very beginning. They need to tively with the NYC Department of Health and Call for Quote: 1-800-896-3858 be able to explain what’s important to measure, Mental Hygiene to ensure that together we and what’s realistic. were doing the best that we can for the pro- www.FourWindsTours.com Sometimes, it’s purely quantitative: How gram. many workshops did the organization present, The Green Cart Initiative was also the begin- and how many people did they train? Other ning of what is now a growing web of part- times, we want to dig into what was learned, nerships between the Illumination Fund and and how it changed the participants. That’s other non-profit organizations. Recently we another level. Evaluation can get much more launched an even broader, more comprehen- complex, and much, much more expensive, but sive strategy to create access and opportunity at the very least we want some metrics that tell around healthy food in New York City. you what was accomplished. So, when I think about what I’m proudest For our major grants, we work with our of, it’s both a program and a progression – grantees to identify metrics they will use to starting with check writing, then creating the assess their programs. foundation, developing a strategy, seeding new Proudest accomplishments: initiatives, expanding and augmenting those I’m especially proud of an initiative we continued on page 7 MAR/APR 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY 2013 7

grew up in Duluth, Minn. where her marks hilanthropist were never equaled then, on to Smith College Joyce Cowin: P where she was Phi Beta Kappa. Next, she was Inspiration for current career: Literacy, there are a myriad of them. How one of the very 1st female lawyers graduating This is not a career, but rather a “calling” to distinguish which are the best to put one’s from New York University Law School. She to make certain this great Country never suf- energies into and with whom it is profitable was a crack Bridge player and spent a year at fers the effects of the 2008 financial debacle. to set up meetings takes diligent research. the Sorbonne. A natural linguist. After her In 2008, this fantastic country of ours was This is an ongoing problem However, I do father died and she moved to New York City almost brought to its knees because of the feel that some substantial progress has been she enrolled in Hunter’s Russian class (the Sub Prime Real Estate disaster!!!!!! When made!!! This statement could never have best student they ever had according to her I read about the thousands upon thousands been made without the wisdom, contacts and teachers) so that she could read the Russian of good, honest, hard working people all knowledge of my dear, wonderful friend... novels in Russian. Throughout all those years across the country, more prominently on the POLA ROSEN!!!! She held the key to the she worked diligently at the Juvenile Court in West Coast, who LOST EVERYTHING that tremendous progress we are making. We have the Bronx keeping thousands upon thousands they had saved over a life time because they gotten our SPECIAL financial Literacy pro- of teenagers from going to prison. Her most got SNOOKERED that absolutely infuri- gram approved to be mandated in the Public favorite pastime was reading. Education was ated me and I thought, if only they had been Schools in the City of New York and in the a blessing...preferably to MOMA...and we central to her life and she imbued me with that EDUCATED to look for the red flags and State. There is a l-o-n-g road ahead...we are could go back to the space I had always sup- concept. She and my father insisted I choose know the proper questions to ask they would learning quickly...Our goal is to be in every ported on the West side. Without debt, we had an occupation...preferably teaching...and so not be in these dreadful straights. “The house State of the Union. We feel this is as impor- many suitors who would like to have our col- I did. I went to Teachers College and will of your dreams…the one you have struggled tant as learning English. lection and use the West side space at Lincoln always be a strong proponent of Education a lifetime to possess only 2% mortgage: Proudest accomplishments: Center...Well, I did not like that idea at all... and learning. It is an excellent tool to help $10,000 or 20,000...no money up front... There are three that stand out: and so, I decided with some other minor sup- one through the vagaries of life. I think I HOW CAN YOU REFUSE???? Well, they Ist, Because I believe so strongly in edu- port...to SAVE THE AMERICAN FOLK ART have proceeded to go forward ...from the couldn’t and they didn’t so they did buy, and cation (as long as one is in relatively good MUSEUM. We have a new energetic director, very early years (late twenties, early thirties) in the end lost everything. The gall is that HEALTH) There is NOTHING more impor- a faithful Board and are moving forward!!!! being on and Chairman of the Board of the the sellers KNEW they were selling tainted tant in this world than a good, basic educa- Amen Child Development Center...I stayed involved merchandise and the banks were not too upset tion. When Arthur Levine was the President 3rd. And probably, what I am most proud for over 30 years. I served on the Board of because they would take over the property of Teachers College, Columbia University, he of is, with the stellar help of Pola Rosen... the Youth Counseling League, The Jewish and assume that, as had been the recent real asked the Board of Trustees if there was any- The Financial Literacy Project...this program Board if Family and Children’s Services, The estate history, the property would increase one interested in funding/founding a school under the aegis of Teachers College and Dr. Teachers College Board of Trustees for over in value, so if/when they did repossess, the for the Arts. I was the only one who responded Anand Marri would be nationwide and man- 44 years, the Board of the American Folk Art properties would increase in value. Not nice.. with a resounding YES. It was the brainchild datory. It all started, as I stated earlier with the Museum for over 20 years, the Steicher and and it had an extraordinary deleterious effect of Judith Burton who was the head of T.C.’s sub prime debacle which almost brought our Horowitz Piano Foundation and the Board on the National economy...but most of all.... Art Department. And so the HERITAGE financial system to a standstill....our poorer of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln on those who just did not know the questions SCHOOL was born. It is in Harlem. population was getting “snookered” And that Center...Out of all these various involve- to ask. 2nd. Splendid Accomplishment. My hus- just is not the American way...so I am in the ments...there is one more that supersedes most Challenges and resolutions: band had been on the Board of the American process of educating the American Public...so of these: my interest in Financial Literacy!!!! Being infuriated does not get you very far Museum of Folk Art for over 35 years, I that there will never be another 2008.....and I am hoping for a major breakthrough in the and it was difficult to know how and where to had become enamored with the quality and from this era on, students will have a work- next year or two. start!!! Today we have a Yin Yang situation: substance of true folk art. It is in a way, the ing, practical knowledge of what to do with Future goals: there is an overload of information available history of our great country. In colorful yo their money, how to preserve it and make it I am resigning, or trying to resign from all to anyone with a computer. On the other hand, yo quilts, portraits, decoys, mourning pic- grow and most of all how to make intelligent Boards except the ones involved in music there is an ocean of material through which tures, tramp art etc. In the 1990s the Museum financial decisions...... I am proud and happy which I joined within the last five years, and one can wade, which is confusing, daunting decided to build a new building on West 53rd to say...I do believe we are on the right yellow devote my time to promoting the fantastic and extremely time consuming. The question Street. I wanted a log cabin, everyone else brick road. Financial Literacy Program that has received is where to start and put the most effort and voted for a grand modern structure... which Turning point: so much positive acclaim in New York City finding out which of the myriad organizations when finished...won ALL the architectural Actually, I do not think that there was a and New York State. I believe it is an invalu- would be the most helpful. Oddly enough awards...but was totally too big for us and too turning point. My mother was absolutely bril- able lesson not only growing up, but a life as it turned out, instead of having a paucity expensive...in a word impractical as time went liant...her family motto was H.C.E. standing long positive wealth of knowledge that will of specialized groups interested in Financial by. It was obvious that a “good” sale would be for Health, Character and Education. She always be meaningful!!!!!! #

also by her deep understanding of key societal Future goals: Laurie Tisch issues and the effectiveness of her funding in On February 14th, the Illumination Fund UNSUNG HERO continued from page 6 areas such as malaria prevention. Melinda had made a commitment of $15 million over next AWARD a deep knowledge of the issue areas she was five years to healthy food initiatives that aim initiatives, and then using those initiatives to giving to and emphasized the importance of to inspire healthier communities through part- Do you know someone special go deeper and broader. measuring results. nership and community engagement. The new who has done some wonderful Influential mentors: Turning points: Healthy Food and Community Change initia- My parents, Bob and Joan Tisch, and my Philanthropically, I think a turning point hap- tive will support novel strategies in New York things? Nominate them for an uncle and aunt, Larry and Billie, have been pened through my work with the Children’s City to increase access to healthy foods and Unsung Hero Award. Send their hugely important influences. It’s not that phi- Museum of Manhattan and the Center for Arts promote healthy choices. It’s the largest pro- name, email, photo and a para- lanthropy formed a part of every conversation Education. With these organizations, I real- gram commitment my foundation has made, graph as to what they did that we had but from the time I can remember, they ized you didn’t need to be an iconic, big name and my goal is to have a significant impact were generous financially and with their time. like Ford, Rockefeller, Annenberg or Carnegie on one of the greatest needs in New York was special to ednews1@aol. They played a big role in their communities, to have a foundation. I learned about many City. There are tremendous health disparities com. If your nominee is chosen and also in Israel, which was very important in smaller foundations that were also making an between wealthy and low-income communi- for the Unsung Hero Award, the early days, especially. impact. I also realized through this work that ties. Healthy food is part of the picture, and my they will appear on the Unsung Another influence in my life is Melinda building a foundation effectively was actually goal is to use healthy food as a catalyst for indi- Gates. I heard Melinda speak several years ago the business I had always wanted to run and vidual, family and community improvement. # Hero Wall for many years. and I was struck not only by her passion but be a part of. 8 WOMEN SHAPING HiSTORY 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

Jeanne Shaheen: Judith S. Kaye: Former Chief U.S. Senator, NH Judge of the State of New York Inspiration for career path: Inspiration for career path: I was inspired to pursue a career in public Maybe it’s what has driven me throughout service because I had a desire to make a dif- my life: attaining the unattainable, not being ference. Growing up in the 1960’s, during negative, fierce determination to use my time the heart of the civil rights movement, I saw and talents meaningfully. firsthand the opportunity to effect meaningful What else would explain coming from rural change. One of my first jobs was as a teacher at Sullivan County, age 15, to Barnard College a newly integrated school in Mississippi, and I in the wilds of New York City, convinced saw how difficult and transformational change that in the shadow of the Columbia School of could be. I wanted to be engaged in the fight Journalism I would become a great journalist, for equality and opportunity for all Americans. a maker and shaper of world opinion. When, Challenges and resolutions: upon graduation from Barnard, all I could get One of the greatest challenges I have faced is was a job as a social reporter, I tried a side door balancing my work as a Governor and Senator to news reporting — law school. Ultimately, on with the work of being a mother. Raising three law school graduation I succeeded in gaining daughters and serving as an elected official are entry into to the world of “white shoe” law both full-time jobs. Balancing work and family firms, also pretty much closed to women back was not always easy, but I think the challenge American people. in 1962. closing the “school-to-prison pipeline”. That is gave me an invaluable perspective on a num- Turning points: Challenges and resolutions: a devastating pipeline that condemns thousands ber of critical issues, like childcare and early When I was a graduate student in Mississippi, After 21 years as a practicing lawyer, the upon thousands of our children to lives of childhood education, that are so important to I was moved by Jimmy Carter, then the Judiciary was for me the next irresistible, violent crime and prison. Ours in effect a “last families in our state. Governor of Georgia, and his first inaugural but impossible, hurdle. But thank you, Mario clear chance” initiative — a last chance to send Proudest accomplishments: address calling for the end of segregation in Cuomo. His courageous appointment led to my our next generation on to productive, construc- Helping to make public kindergarten a real- the South. I was teaching in a newly integrated quarter-century on New York State’s highest tive lives that are the future of our nation. ity for over 31,500 additional children in New school at the time, and Carter’s vision was very court (1983-2009) (the Court’s first woman Influential mentors: Hampshire is something that I will always different from what I was hearing from elected judge), 15 of those years as Chief Judge of the Having grown up in Monticello, I have to be proud of. When I became Governor, New officials in Mississippi. I admired his courage State of New York. With mandatory retirement credit a great part of my drive first to my family Hampshire was one of the only states in the and his leadership and eventually, I ended up at age 70, I found a welcoming return to law and then to Eleanor Roosevelt, whose example country that did not offer universal kindergar- working on his Presidential campaign after I practice with a terrific firm, Skadden Arps, continues to inspire me. No one succeeds ten. Early education is critical to our long-term moved to New Hampshire. That was my first where I now am. alone, and there are many many wonderful economic growth. That is why I was so pleased experience working on a campaign, and it What conclusions do you draw about me people along the way to thank for bringing me to hear President Obama include a call for uni- inspired me to remain involved in the politi- from this description of my professional life? to this moment. versal pre-K in his State of the Union address cal process. Plainly, I enjoy facing, and overcoming, chal- Future goals: this year and I look forward to fighting for that Future goals: lenges to achieve objectives that are important My wonderful “after-life” at Skadden Arps in the Senate. It is my goal to work together with people to me. enables me to pursue a wide range of objec- Influential mentors: in New Hampshire and Washington to find So what are the important objectives in my tives, including a life in international arbitra- My mother was an enormous influence in my bipartisan, common-sense solutions to address life today? tion. But way at the top I place my school- life. Like me, she was a working mother who the challenges facing our country. We have an Fortunately, when I reached the Court of justice initiatives, keeping kids in school and also raised three daughters. She taught me the opportunity to put aside partisan differences Appeals my interests began more and more out of courts, ending mass incarceration that lessons of hard-work, respect for others and the and find common ground to strengthen our to focus on children, families, family justice. destroys so many young families and dimin- importance of family values. Throughout my economy and make life better for middle-class In 1988 while on the bench, I took on leader- ishes our nation’s future. time in politics, I have worked to incorporate American families. I am hopeful that we can ship of the Permanent Judicial Commission on Last year we brought together educators and these values into my work to maintain posi- come together to stand up for the ideals that Justice for Children, a position I continue to judges from around the nation to collaborate tive, respectful relationships. Even when we make our country great - opportunity, equality hold to this day. on ways to close the pipeline, and we will be as elected officials don’t see eye to eye, it is and freedom - because that is what the public Proudest accomplishments: convening a New York State group April 11-13 critical that we do not allow political divisive- sent us here to do. # Among the accomplishments that make me at Hofstra University. Together we can do this! ness to obstruct our job of representing the most proud are justice system reforms in the The challenges are huge, and surely far out- area of families and children, promoting stabil- rank any I faced in my own life. But one mes- encourage the development of safe, respectful, ity, permanency and problem-solving justice. sage that still resounds for me—remembering Prison Pipeline supportive learning environments while hold- Education is of course a centerpiece. As I my own early days of dismay and dejection continued from page 5 ing students accountable for their behavior learned from my immigrant parents, education — is that the only way to overcome challenges and reserving the use of punitive measures— is the key to opportunity. is to be persistent, never lose faith, stay in the Since the Summit, nearly two-thirds of including school suspension and arrest—for In recent years, my attention has directed game. The only way to assure failure is to the State Teams have indicated an interest in the most egregious cases. We want to address toward keeping kids in school and out of courts, stop trying. # either themselves conducting a State Summit the over-representation of suspensions among or convening a Task Force as a strategy to Black students and students receiving special young people on the express lane to prison and dealing with issues as they arise. Yes, children move forward. Additionally, nearly half of education services. We want New York lead- oblivion. Surely we can do better, and each of do push the limit. They write on desks, they the Teams spoke about the need to provide ers to promote and help adopt policies and us has a role, and a responsibility, to change fight with each other, and they talk back. Yes, increased accessibility to mental health ser- practices to help children succeed in school these grim outcomes. children too often experience chaos, disaffili- vices—another strategy we have heard much and prevent their involvement in the justice For too long, we’ve been presented with a ation, disconnection. They have mental health about in recent months. And in April we will system in the first instance and re-engage those false choice between accountability and com- needs. They act out. be convening our own Leadership Summit children who do get involved. It is time for New passion when it comes to adolescents. We can But it’s how the rest of us deal with these on School-Partnerships at Hofstra University, York to take action. have both. We must have both. Education is not behaviors that sets the tone for their educational bringing together leaders from across the New We know that as a nation, a state, a commu- simply a function of schools, and schools can- future. We need to provide them the opportu- York State to focus on statutory and policy nity, we can’t afford to make court involvement not function in a vacuum. Families and commu- nity to rebound from the mistakes they make changes to achieve our objectives. We want to the default and send so many thousands of nities are integral in promoting education and continued on page 9 MAR/APR 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY 2013 9

Kate Hathaway: Dr. Christina Paxson: Broadway Producer President, Brown University Inspiration for career path: Inspiration for career path: While I loved my time as an actor, most Like many people, I drew inspiration from my recently in Steel Magnolias with Karen Ziemba, family members. My grandfather was an agron-

I felt that I wanted to get involved in theater in a omy professor at the University of Tennessee, O'Connor Patrick broader way – to bring new projects to the stage. who did research on soil quality, soybeans The best way to do that is to become a producer. and cowpeas. One of my uncles was an early Challenges and resolutions: computer scientist and director of Penn’s school First, while I had the desire to become a of engineering. And, my mother went back producer, I had to learn how to go about it. to graduate school after having children. This Fortunately, I was introduced to the Commercial doesn’t mean I set out to become a university Theater Institute, which each year has a 16-week professor from a young age: that decision came program to educate people who are in exactly much later. The inspiration my relatives offered the position I was. I learned a lot from them. was more subtle. Their examples reinforced the Second, there is the interesting task of raising value of higher education and research so that, money. To produce, you have to identify per- when it came time for me to choose a career sons who are qualified to invest, and then you path, an academic career seemed natural. have to ask them for money. I was uncomfort- very generous with her time — and she is Challenges and resolutions: have been several marvelous women who are or able at first asking people I know, as well as patient, which for me, where I am right now, Leading a university has many rewarding have been university presidents. Nan Keohane, strangers, for an investment. I got over that by is important. challenges. There are numerous constituencies President Emerita of Wellesley and Duke, has doing it, and my comfort zone expanded as I did Turning points: — students, faculty, staff and alumni — and, a deep understanding of how to lead an institu- it. Now, if I THINK you might be a qualified I cannot really say that there was a turning even within these groups, different individuals tion effectively and ethically. She has been a investor, watch out — I’m reaching for your point. As I look back at the path I have travelled, have distinct and sometimes contrasting moti- source of exceptionally sound advice. Shirley wallet. For a good cause, of course, and I hope it seems pretty straight to me. I started acting vations and goals. The biggest challenge is to Tilghman has also been a wonderful mentor. I to get your money back, and then some. professionally when I was six years old. As work across groups to forge consensus about learned so much simply by observing how she Proudest accomplishments: an adult, I acted in national tours, in regional the direction the university should take or, in approached the Princeton presidency. I admire On ANN, the Ann Richards play coming to theaters, and Off-Broadway. I put it all aside the absence of consensus, to create an under- her brilliance as a scientist and an educator, as Broadway at Lincoln Center, my objective was for a long time as I raised my children, and then standing of how and why decisions are made. well as her down-to-earth and collaborative to raise enough money to become an associate one of them became an actress herself. She kept At Brown University, we are in the midst of leadership style. producer. I exceeded that target, so that now I me pretty busy when she was starting out. She developing a strategic plan that will guide our Turning points: am at the co-producer level, which is very excit- quickly became established, and I was able to growth over the next decade. This has required My career path has had a number of impor- ing for me. I love participating in the producer help her select her professional team (manager, the engagement and participation of many tant junctures. When I first went to gradu- meetings and sharing observations. agent, business manager, etc.). As she went members of our community, and the develop- ate school in economics, I planned to work Apart from my involvement with ANN, I am off on her own, with a solid team supporting ment of a responsive communications strategy for an international organization or business. proud to be in a 32-year marriage, and having her, and my youngest graduated from college, so that the process is transparent. Although we However, I discovered that I loved the freedom raised three wonderful children. I went back to acting, and then moved over still have work ahead of us, I am confident and creativity of research and the joy of teach- Mentors: to producing. that we can develop and implement plans that ing students about economics and statistics. I had a wonderful voice teacher in high Future goals: support our desire for continued academic So, I changed course and followed an aca- school, Sister Mary Donald, of the teaching Right now, my goal is to soak up like a sponge excellence and build on Brown’s innovative demic career. Over time, I realized that I could order, the Sisters of Saint Joseph. She set and all I can from this wonderful experience with approach to education and scholarship in the have an even larger impact on education and kept the performing bar pretty high for me. I ANN. And then get involved with new projects service of society. scholarship by growing and leading academic also had a wonderful college professor, Dan for the stage. I am happily pursuing my pas- Proudest accomplishments: programs. And, I learned that I drew a great Rodden, who ran a short-lived theater program sion for theater, and I am in a position to make I am proud of the research I have done with deal of satisfaction from the work itself, which at my college. He taught us what professional choices about what I want to get involved with my collaborator Anne Case on the effects of involves working with others to set and achieve production values were, and so I always had in the future. I am looking at projects now. early life experiences on educational attainment ambitious goals. In some ways, I have come full the highest standards to look to. Most recently, Ultimately, I would like to be a lead producer and earnings in adulthood. One lesson I take circle: 30 years after I entered graduate school, Harriet Leve Newman has taken me under her on Broadway. # from this work is that the ability of young adults I find myself leading what is essentially an wing to show me around the world of produc- Kate Hathaway’s stage name is Kate to thrive in college hinges on their health and international institution that educates students ing on Broadway. She introduced me to ANN. McCauley. Her daughter is Oscar award-win- cognitive development at much younger ages from all over the world and advances globally Harriet is teaching me so much, and she is ner Anne Hathaway. — and that, as a society, we ignore early child- relevant knowledge and discovery. hood development at our peril. I am also proud Future goals: and provides a quality education that prepares of the students I have taught, mentored and Brown is distinguished for its commitment to Prison Pipeline them to compete in today’s world. who have benefited from programs I helped to intellectual independence, innovation and the continued from page 8 To say it is the right time to focus on educa- create. Nothing makes me happier than to hear application of research and education to issues tion is an understatement. There is no time to from a former student that I made a difference of local, national and global significance. In along their developmental years, save the harsh- wait. Let’s build on the good work that has in his or her life. the coming years, my goal is to grow Brown’s est penalties for the worst offenses, and keep already begun and find ways to improve our Influential mentors: capacity in education and scholarship by build- our children from entering a criminal justice school culture and learning environment – My most influential mentors in my adult life ing on those strengths. This means expanding system where the existing off-ramps too often teaching civics, applying restorative justice financial aid so that we attract an even more lead right back in. practices, using positive behavioral interven- our leadership in juvenile justice, not juvenile talented, diverse and global student body; fos- We must ensure our schools are safe – for our tions that are shown to work. incarceration. Let’s invest in and support our tering faculty excellence; advancing Brown’s students to learn and our teachers effectively to So let’s show the nation the future—let’s step children’s education, their hopes and aspira- innovative approach to education to prepare teach. We must focus our efforts on providing out front with genuine solutions. Let’s leave tions. Let’s focus on building strong children. students for the demands of the 21st century; an education that allows the full development the courts with only those kids whose actions It’s a far better investment. When we reach and developing signature academic initiatives of each student, protects them from discrimina- justify extreme intervention, so that they can this goal, and we can, we reach a fair and just that build on Brown’s distinctive multidisci- tion, uses discipline opportunities to teach stu- receive the attention they need. Let’s focus opportunity for all. That’s the house I live in. plinary culture and commitment to integrating dents about their rights and the rights of others, on building strong children. Let’s return to That’s America to me.# education and scholarship. # 10 WOMEN SHAPING HiSTORY 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

Elizabeth Shwal: Dr. Judith Hochman: arnard uthor ducator ecturer TranscribedWAVES by ’44, B ’51 A , E , L Inspiration for career path: Valentina Cordero My son had learning disabilities and, at the How did you become a WAVE? time, no one knew how to effectively reme‑ Ron Hester I went to Barnard on the GI Bill because I diate or even diagnose them. I had been a was out of the Navy after WWII. My rank was mainstream classroom teacher but decided to aviation machinist mate, AMM, 2C (second go to graduate school in an attempt to master class). I was in for 33 months. I went in as soon my own anxiety by finding out more about as I was 20 ‑ I had to be 20 to get in ‑ and I his difficulties. I enrolled in Teachers College came out when the president said it was time in the 1980’s and I was fortunate to have, for the volunteers to get out. WAVES stands as my first two professors, Dr. Larry Silver, for Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency child psychiatrist, and Dr. Martha Denckla, Service, that’s what we did. pediatric neurologist. Those classes changed Everyone was excited about the war. Hitler the course of my professional life because I was doing terrible things, and so was Mussolini. became fascinated with how children learn. And this was an opportunity for young people After that, most of my education came from to get involved. And they paid us $52 a month. a brilliant fellow graduate student, Margaret But we weren’t sent overseas because they finished Barnard and took a Master’s degree Stanback. She became my mentor and ally for research-based instruction in the classroom is were afraid of putting women on the boats, so at NYU. The only Master’s degree they would educational reform. not a reversion to the “drill and kill” methods the women had their own barracks, separate give in one year was elementary education so Greatest challenges: of yesteryear. Students can be engaged and from the men. We worked with the men, we ate that meant I should be a school teacher. Well, Many schools of education, even the so- enjoy lessons and meaningful activities and, at with the men, and we shot with the men, and I did teach school one year {she laughs} and I called “leaders” in teacher education, continue the same time, master the skills they need to we went on liberty with the men, but we didn’t got fired at the end of it, and that was the end to promote methods that are effective for only have in order to move forward. sleep in the same buildings. of that. a small percentage of children. We have been Proudest accomplishments: What did you do as part of WAVES? So then I went to Europe. I stayed in England too easily seduced by the newest fads instead It is fantastic to see the joy and pride of stu‑ My first assignment was boot camp at Hunter a year, and then went to Germany because my of making informed decisions about instruc‑ dents who are achieving, and teachers who are College in the Bronx where they taught us to brother was part of the Foreign Service and he tion. My greatest challenge is to find effective successful. Perhaps the most consistently mov‑ be Navy people, and we were there for several was stationed in Munich. ways to help teachers implement evidence- ing and inspiring experiences I have are when weeks. And then they sent us to different train‑ Career Goals: based, basic skill instruction into their class‑ I observe the changes in the attitudes, thinking ing schools, I went to the training school in I taught English in Munich for a while rooms. and knowledge of students and their teachers. Memphis TN for six weeks to learn how to be because they had a Berlitz school where I could Resolutions: Influential mentors: what they called a machinist’s mate. I remem‑ get paid. After four years I came back, stayed In 1987, a small group of educators rede‑ In addition to Margaret Stanback, my col‑ ber one job I had to do was take something with a girlfriend in Boston and met my second fined the mission and curriculum of an inde‑ leagues and students have been both inspir‑ apart and put it back together again. I never husband. While there I had secretarial jobs. pendent school in White Plains: Windward. ing and influential. I have gained so much saw one like it again but I did it, that once, and When he opened a law office, I became We implemented a curriculum grounded in from observing and teaching countless chil‑ I put it together and I didn’t have any pieces left the secretary. And then he died. I had a job evidence-based methods because we believed dren over many years and learning from them. over, so I guess I did it right. at Boston University for a little while, for a that direct instruction would help students with Throughout my career, I have been privileged I worked on machinery that made planes fly. professor there, taking his dictation and typing language and learning disabilities. to mentor a great number of talented and I was in the aviation part. I was in Pensacola it up. We knew that most children don’t “discover” dedicated teachers and they have taught me for my regular job for 27 months after I was Then I met and married Zachary, an Egyptian how to read by putting a lot of books in the as much, if not more, than I have taught them. through with the regular training. My main job from Harvard. We were married for about 20 classroom or by guessing at words from their Turning point: was to put the oil and gas in and wave them years and then he died. shapes or the picture on the page. They need My turning point came when I recognized in and out. They just told us where to put it Proudest accomplishments: direct instruction and specific strategies to that my son was not the only child whose and how to do it, it wasn’t very difficult, but That’s pretty hard to say. I’m an active mem‑ learn to decode words. They have to under‑ needs were misunderstood and unmet in somebody had to do it, and if the girls did it ber of the League of Women Voters and the stand sound-symbol associations and the syl‑ school. There are still too many children who then the boys could be free to do something Women’s City Club here in New York for a lable structure of English in order to become are experiencing needless frustration, shame, else, in theory. long time. My mother was with the League of accurate and fluent decoders. Additionally, anxiety and failure in classrooms. Then I went to Barnard, met a fellow, liked Women Voters while I was still in high school we knew that children don’t figure out how to Future goals: him and went to meet his family. He took me Thoughts on women’s education today: write well by vague assignments in journals. I want to continue to: speak out about how for a walk in the woods and I fell down and Well I think women have it a lot better today They need explicit instruction about how to we should be teaching all of our students broke an arm and a leg. I was in the hospital than they did when I was a kid. I’ve been in generate complex sentences, cohesive, coher‑ instead of relying on approaches that are fail‑ for 10 days and had to leave school for a while. banks where women were big bosses and stores ent, unified paragraphs and compositions. ing too many of them; provide staff develop‑ That’s why I didn’t graduate until ’51. Now I’m where women have been very important, and it They need systematic, sequential guidance ment to teachers and administrators about still here. I was 90 last month. wasn’t like that when I was younger. about how to write a research paper and how how to understand and use the links between What were your experiences after I think it’s very good that we have more sena‑ to revise their work. Instead, too often, they writing, reading comprehension and thinking; Barnard? tors that are women than we had. And we’re are given assignments that result in disjointed train school leaders in how implement the most Well, it’s a little hard to remember, it’s all beginning to have more congress people who thoughts about their own experiences. Students effective curricula in their schools; advocate a long time ago. I married for four years, and are women, both in the state legislature and in need to be guided to write in order to commu‑ that elementary school leaders move away then finally realized it was a mistake so I went Washington. I think that’s a good thing. nicate, to explain and to inform. from programs that have failed for so many to Reno and got a divorce ‑ that was the way I think that, of course we were taught…I was I was Head of Windward for 11 years years to prepare their students for middle and you did it back then. My parents didn’t want brought up in Scarsdale but I had my last two and, during that time, the Windward Teacher high school. Teachers of older students have to me to go to college because I had two younger years in Quaker boarding school in PA and Training Institute (WTTI) was established. Its spend far too much time teaching fundamental brothers that had to go to Yale, they were very they were interested in government too. I was mission is to introduce teachers and other pro‑ skills that should have been mastered earlier; important. As a girl, I didn’t count. That’s how always interested in government. As a matter fessionals to the research-supported methods and mentor and empower teachers and admin‑ it was then. When I got out of the service, I was of fact I majored in government at Barnard and we know will help all students. At Windward, istrators who have the talent, intellect and entitled to a college degree on the GI bill so I I’m still concerned with it.# we were able to demonstrate that applying energy to accomplish the goals above. # MAR/APR 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY 2013 11

Ellen Futter: Nan J. Morrison: President, American Museum President & CEO, Council of Natural History for Economic Education Inspiration for career path: Inspiration for career path: A combination of good fortune, passion for Paying attention to deeper inclinations in the extraordinary places I have been privi‑ myself and grace, or serendipity. I was a leged to serve, and the great people in my life. management consultant and senior partner at Greatest challenges: Accenture when I was asked by [former] NYC What are some of the greatest challenges Schools Chancellor Joel Klein to partner with you’ve faced? How did you overcome them? his team on a project. It was highly unusual I went from being an associate at a law for Accenture to allow a senior partner to work firm to becoming Acting President of Barnard on one project for several months. And, this College when I was just shy of my 30th birth‑ is where listening to myself came into play. day. I am an alumna of the College, and I had My family’s focus had always been on both been on the Barnard Board for about a decade, education and service. Economic and financial initially as a student trustee, and therefore education was the perfect fit. We had always knew the College and its issues very well, but emphasized the importance of good husbandry I still had an enormous “on the job” learning — the care of your own human capital (educa‑ curve in terms of both the inner workings of tion) and the care of financial resources in order the College and management generally. made us the only museum in the Western to build a fruitful life for oneself and extended man had not finished high school and he was Another challenge that stands out is the Hemisphere to grant the Ph.D. In this same community. Now, as CEO of the Council for transformed. Previously, he was just doing a creation of the Rose Center for Earth and vein, more recently we launched a pilot for Economic Education (CEE), I am working to job, now he was leading as well as creating Space at the American Museum of Natural a master’s degree in science teaching—also help K-12 children acquire the skills to make value for himself and his organization. It was History. This was an intensely interdisciplin‑ the only program of its kind at a museum in informed decisions, think critically about what so inspiring. I was so happy to see his sense ary and sensitive project. We worked with the United States. The Museum also offers those decisions entail, and create their own of fulfillment. His thank you and his smile scientists, educators, and exhibition design‑ extensive teacher professional development paths to fruitful lives. will always stay with me. Today, I want that ers, as well as with Board Members and programs both onsite and online and has Challenges and resolutions: same experience, that same sense of fulfillment donors, architects, engineers, the City, the spearheaded the creation of Urban Advantage, Throughout my career, I chose to lead orga‑ and pride, for our nation’s next generations. community, and NASA, among others, to a middle school science program that has had nizational change. Almost every project gener‑ The country feels worried, unsure of the path transform a beloved, historic institution— a tremendous impact on tens of thousands ated change with the goal of creating stronger forward. Polls show our people losing trust the Hayden Planetarium—into a 21st-century of students and teachers. All in, some 4,000 and more resilient organizations. I suspect that in key institutions from civic, to political, to center for science and education. At the same teachers each year participate in professional we all prefer even a suboptimal status quo to financial. As the child of a family who saw and time, we were also creating a new research development courses and programs at the the unknown. Leading a non-profit organiza‑ embraced American opportunity, I don’t want department in astrophysics on par with the Museum. tion from the inside, rather than advising on that sense of an open vista and unlimited pros‑ Museum’s other outstanding scientific divi‑ Influential mentors: change from the outside, posed new challenges. pects dimmed for our children. sions. In the end, cutting-edge designs by Several family members influenced me pro‑ I had to dig down into everything I had learned Influential mentors: architect Jim Polshek and exhibit designer foundly, starting with my maternal grand‑ beyond management consulting. Yes, the basics We rely on networks of people and those Ralph Appelbaum and compelling science mother, who was a school principal for 30 hold — set clear goals, work to create buy- networks change over time with changing and education from Museum experts provided years and offered a magnificent early model in around those goals, communicate honestly demands and needs. There are, however, two an iconic space for presenting the most up-to- of how a woman could be a professional, and openly, say what you are going to do and touchstones. My Dad, Herb, and his “Rules to date science, and the new Hayden Planetarium lead, and still be an active, devoted, and do what you say to build trust. But there is Live By”: Act with integrity, be nice, and don’t offered an immersive and scientifically accu‑ loving family member. My father provided also something indefinable about leading an forget to be happy. My second touchstone was a rate experience like no other. an example of someone who had a very full organization forward — something beyond the member of Mercer’s Management Committee. Proudest accomplishments: professional life as an attorney as well as a business school training. I found myself turning It was my first presentation with him for a cli‑ What are some of the accomplishments you robust set of extracurricular activities to which to my experiences with triathlons. It’s about ent. He warned me to be “serious.” My personal are most proud of? he was incredibly devoted. He too was deeply running your race when you are entirely spent; style had tended to the humorous and playful. Working with our Board and an outstanding committed to family and always stressed it eclipses the training and the preparation; it So, I was serious. The presentation was going team of colleagues to reinvigorate a beloved, through example the importance of conduct‑ brings you to a new level of understanding in over with a resounding thud. I could feel it. I historic institution and transform it into a ing life with the utmost integrity. yourself and of others. It requires courage and switched gears back to my more normal and Museum for the 21st century, not only as a In a completely different way, playing sports stamina; then it comes back to building a good personally authentic style. Suddenly, dynamics pre-eminent scientific enterprise, which it had deeply informed my sense of working with a team, whose members you can rely upon for in the room were transformed for the better. But long been, but also one with highly topical and team, motivating others, “hanging-in” in dif‑ their best work and for whom you will always what stayed with me is what my boss said to me inspiring exhibitions and vibrant educational ficult moments, and being competitive. give your best. afterwards: “I was wrong to advise you to move offerings. Each year, the Museum welcomes Turning point: Proudest accomplishments: away from your natural style.” This taught me and engages millions of visitors onsite and Attending Barnard and subsequently return‑ It is more about the individuals with whom an important lesson about humility with junior online. ing there as its president. As many alumnae I have worked than building a new marketing staff and about staying focused on what works, A central component of this new vision of before me have said, “Barnard changed my channel, successfully completing a merger, or not on who wins the points. The challenge is the Museum is an acute understanding of the life” – not only offering me an extraordinary turning around an organization. The people not to just learn from your mentors and sup‑ Museum’s role in society – training the next opportunity at a very young age, but empow‑ stay with you; the rest falls away. For example, porters but from those who are less than fans. generation of scientists, teachers, and citizens. ering me with both the capacity and the cour‑ I was visiting a client several months after we CEOs often surround themselves with people This is perhaps most visible in the updated age to do it. had developed detailed plans for reshaping who will mirror back what they want to hear. expression of our educational mission through Future goals: some of their transportation operations. One The most important person in your circle (or the creation of the Richard Gilder Graduate To continue to be challenged, to grow per‑ of the people with whom I had worked closely outside of it) is the one who will tell you the School, which built on our longstanding rela‑ sonally, and to keep up with – and try to stay came running down the hall, threw his arms truth — hopefully, while following Herb’s rule tionships with universities and our role in a bit ahead of— the curve in this constantly around me, and dragged me into the operations to be nice about it. mentoring and teaching graduate students. evolving, increasingly complex and hi-tech center to show me what they were now doing Turning points: The creation of the Gilder Graduate School world.# and what had been accomplished. This gentle‑ continued on page 19 12 WOMEN SHAPING HiSTORY 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

Kimberly Cline: Sylvia Montero: President, Mercy College Author, Executive, Leader Inspiration for career path: Inspiration for career path: There have been inspiring moments, but my I dedicated most of my work life to the mother, a math teacher, encouraged my passion Human Resources field. I came to HR seren‑ for learning. I have also been fortunate to have dipitously. One big setback –– losing my job in outstanding mentors and role models during my the NYC Education system because of budget career. SUNY Chancellor John Ryan encour‑ cuts — opened the door to other opportunities. aged strategic thinking, accurate planning and I walked through a few such doors and ended up flawless execution. His unique grasp of lead‑ in Human Resources, a career that I had never ership and high expectations were critical in dreamed of and to which I was most suited. preparing me for my current presidential role. What continued to inspire me during 30 years Challenges and resolutions: was that I made a difference in people’s work The majority of challenges we face in higher lives and I understood the connection with the education can be overcome with good planning business. As my career moved into the interna‑ and hiring the right talent. The most difficult tional arena, I was delighted to learn that people moments have been those we cannot change, everywhere need to believe in themselves and ones when members of our community face want to be valued for their contribution. challenges such as the ones brought about by one — what to do and what not to do. One of Challenges and resolutions: I was the first woman to lead the HR function Hurricane Sandy. These are often the strongest my earliest mentors was Mary Lai, one of the Growing up a minority in the Lower East in the male-dominated Pfizer Animal Health moments for a higher educational community, nation’s first female financial officers. As a Side of New York City, I faced discrimination business during the first global business inte‑ when the campus pulls together to help others. senior leader at Long Island University, Mary and almost fell into the trap of believing that gration that Pfizer experienced. I was fortunate Proudest accomplishments: took the time to seek out a number of women I wasn’t good enough to compete. As a young that an executive who had spent his entire I am very lucky to have a wonderful career, on Long Island in financial areas, offering her teenager I consciously resisted these feelings career in the Animal Health business took me while also having the privilege to be a wife and guidance and help. With much thanks due her, and began the journey back to a strong sense of under his wing. mother to three nearly grown children. My hus‑ we have all become senior leaders at higher self and this turned out to be when I faced the I was the first woman to have HR responsi‑ band has always been supportive of my passion educational institutions. second greatest challenge. bilities for Pfizer’s businesses in Asia and Latin for education and does more than his share. Turning points: As a minority female in a predominantly America. I was fortunate to find a mentor in an I am also proud of the mentoring program The fork in the road was when I decided to white male business world, I had to be success‑ unexpected place — Japan. The local head of we launched at Mercy College, a program become an attorney instead of a physician. ful in spite of gender biases — from the little Human Resources took it upon himself to teach that is showing higher retention rates, while Future goals: day-to-day reminders (being left out of a con‑ me about Japan, the Japanese and the Pfizer equalizing race and income. The Personalized A major goal is to be a participant in the versation about military experiences or sports) business in Japan. Achievement ContracT (PACT) has been rec‑ national agenda to raise the number of col‑ to more significant career impacting decisions Turning points: ognized nationally as an innovative and best lege graduates in America to the highest in (outright resistance by an all-male management 1976 was the worst year of my life: I lost my practice to improve retention. the world by 2020. We all need to understand training class; blocked from a specific position job as a teacher; my marriage ended leaving me Influential mentors: the importance education plays in reducing because it was “no place for a woman”). I had the single mom of a 6 year old son; and I fin‑ I have had many strong mentors — my unemployment and poverty. First generation to learn to push back in constructive ways and ished my Master’s Degree after a horrific fail‑ parents, college and university presidents, students who receive a college degree become then work harder than most to demonstrate that ure in my oral exam. But, this was the year that professors, CEOs and students. If we observe role models, not only for their families, but for I could be successful when I was finally given I decided to move back to Puerto Rico because and listen carefully, we can learn from every‑ their neighborhoods as well. # the opportunity. I could teach at university level with an MA Proudest accomplishments: and my parents were there to help me through I’m proud that my success — as the first and the transition. I lost 25 pounds in 3 months but only woman in many assignments — opened I started teaching at Inter-American University, The School of Education at Mercy College is seeking national accreditation doors for other Latinos and women following which in turn introduced me to the pharmaceu‑ and recognition from the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher close behind. I’m proud of the positive impact tical industry and a wonderful new career. Education (NCATE), the accrediting agency for schools of education and their that I had on younger professionals when as a Future goals: related programs across the United States. As the culminating part of the senior executive I had the opportunity to be a I’m a happy and very busy retiree. My entire process, the School is hosting an accreditation visit by the NCATE Board of mentor myself. focus is giving back for a “beyond my dreams” Examiner’s team in mid-November 2013. Mentors: life. I give back to the Lower East Side of A high school teacher believed in me beyond Manhattan through my work on the Board of Graduates, faculty members, employers of graduates or other interested my own expectations. He insisted that I apply to Grand Street Settlement. I’ve been on the board persons who have worked closely with faculty or administrators in the School Barnard College of Columbia University and as for 12 years and in July of this past year I was of Education, are invited to share their written comments with the Board of a result I received a full scholarship and a pres‑ appointment President of the Board. I give back Examiners team. We ask that comments focus on substantive matters that tigious education that I couldn’t even dream of. to Barnard by sponsoring a Scholarship Fund are relevant to educational process and outcomes. Quite a number of executives in the pharma‑ for another young woman in financial need When writing, please identify your relationship to the program. ceutical industry took chances on me by giving and in recognition of my parents’ emphasis The School of Education extends its appreciation for this important me high profile assignments where, if I had on education; I named the scholarship after failed, their judgment would have been ques‑ them. I wrote my book hoping that my story contribution. tioned. I benefited from many mentors, people will inspire other young people to never give Please submit your written testimony to: who were more than willing to teach me about up on themselves or their dreams and I donate Board of Examiners the business or help me navigate through areas all proceeds from sales of the book to Grand NCATE where I had no previous experience. Street Settlement. Finally, I’m active in my 2010 Massachusetts Avenue For example, I was hired into the pharmaceu‑ parish, helping with outreach efforts to help Washington, DC 20036-1023 tical industry in Human Resources even though those less fortunate in our immediate commu‑ I had no previous experience in the field. The Or by e-mail to: [email protected] nity and overseas. If my efforts contribute to director of the unit was a dedicated mentor, changing the life of just one other person, I’m a guiding me through a very steep learning curve. happy camper. # MAR/APR 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ WOMEN SHAPING HISTORY 2013 13

Wu Man: Ntozake Shange: Musician Extraordinaire Obie-Awarded Playwright By Joan Baum, Ph.D. It seems fitting that an interview with world- renowned Asian-American virtuoso Wu Man should take place during the celebration of the Year of the Snake because it is said that this sixth Chinese zodiac animal sign represents those who are intuitive, introspective and refined, as is the Wu Man’s playing of the pipa [pea-pah], an TRANSCRIBED By instrument with over an over 2,000-year-old his‑ Valentina Cordero tory. The sign particularly describes Wu Man’s Pola Rosen (PR): It is a pleasure to be here playing in the Pudong style (pipa styles are today. Can you describe a turning point in defined by geographical region). Vis-à-vis a per‑ your life and describe how you became a cussive or martial, military style, Pudong is said writer? to be lyrically refined and intricately detailed in Ntozake Shange (NS): The turning point the Chinese classical repertoire. was when I discovered that I was a writer. I was A complicated, pear-shaped, four-string, lute- sitting at Millbank Hall [Barnard College cam‑ like wooden instrument, suitable for both solo Wu Man began playing the pipa whe she pus] and someone from the literary magazine at A journalist from Columbia Spectator and ensemble work, the pipa is plucked with was nine. Her parents (father an artist, mother Barnard came to me and said ‘Will your story (CS): I was wondering how involved you the right hand like a guitar (chords are not fre‑ a teacher) encouraged her, proud that she was be ready? Will your poem be ready because we were at Barnard College since you gradu- quent in Asian music). It demands great skill taking up an instrument with such a long cultural have the deadline tomorrow?’ I looked at her ated in the 60s? Has your relationship with to generate vibrato and other musical effects history — and not just in music. Chinese poets and I said ‘I will have it done. There is no prob‑ Barnard changed or is it the same? by way of frets (anywhere from 12 to 26). Wu have written about the pipa, Wu Man notes. In lem about that’. I decided to write NS: I used to be very good Man has been hailed as its “premier” player and addition, its relatively small size makes it attrac‑ a poem, and give it to her under attending class reunion every year critical reviews would indicate that the desig‑ tive to women. She studied in her home town of my real name which was Paulette and that kind of tapered off when I nation is well founded. A recent concert at the Hangzhou (south of Shanghai), and at the age of Williams. So, it was a turning left New York. It tapered off again Asia Society in New York, “Wu Man and The 13 was selected to attend the celebrated Central point when I discovered writing, when I had my daughter. I haven’t Knights” (a dynamic Brooklyn-based collective Conservatory of Music in Beijing, where she and I decided to become a writer been terribly active. I keep myself that plays play folk, jazz, klezmer and rock), became the first recipient of a masters degree as a professional. My compromise involved through making calls and featured Wu Man playing her own composition in pipa. Curiosity about how musicians lived at that time was to teach part time through talking to the dean’s office. Blue and Green and met with great acclaim. Why outside China, however, prompted her interest in a college for the rest of my life PR: Can you tell us a little bit blue and green? They are her favorite colors, she in coming to the U.S. — especially when she and dedicate my real life to write about some of the mentors in laughs, blue invoking the sky and ocean, green heard musicians such as Isaac Stern, with whom poems, which I did successfully your life? springtime. Color, she notes, is “very important she performed in an open master class, and Seiji for a number of years. NS: I have to start with my in Chinese culture.” Ozawa and the Boston Symphony who came to PR: Did you receive any com- parents, who were very artistic Talk about her desire to bring together East China in the 1980s. She arrived in America when pensation for the poems that people and who exposed me to and West, both The Lost Angeles Times and The she was 22, alone and without knowing the lan‑ you published in the literary magazine? arts at a very early age. My mother would go New York Times laud her playing and call her guage, “a turning point” in her life. She had only NS: I don’t think so. around reciting poems. My father introduced “the future” of classical contemporary music. briefly studied English in China, but once she PR: Were you an English major? me to black music of all kinds because he In singling out a pipa Concerto composed by came to the U.S. she learned English by “talking NS: American studies. was interested in that. Here at Barnard there the late Lou Harrison, the NYT noted that it is with musicians during rehearsals.” She has been PR: I remember reading that you went to was Christine Royer, Annette Baxter and John “a delightful piece that traverses musical worlds a U.S. citizen for ten years. the West Coast to get a masters degree at the Kouwenhoven, who were instrumental in my spanning Chinese folk songs and Vivaldi. For She is thrilled to be performing frequently, University of Southern California. How do intellectual evolution. Christine was the stal‑ Ms. Wu it provides an opportunity to show off though the “challenges” of also being a wife you compare that with your studies here on wart of my spirit. the polyglot range of her instrument, which and mother can sometimes cause difficulties. the East Coast? Did you have a preference? PR: If you look back at those times and can produce translucent beads of sound as well But her family (her husband is a chemist, her NS: It was difficult for me to work in reflect on Barnard and Columbia today in as sustained singing phrases.” She has played 14-year old son plays piano) is supportive, and California, first of all because I didn’t have 2013, what is different? with major ensembles, most recently the Kronos she particularly appreciates the opportunity not a car and I didn’t know how to drive. So, NS: Barnard has evolved, it has became a Quartet, and she points out that Philip Glass only to acquaint new audiences with the pipa but I couldn’t drive in California. I understand much more open place for everybody. We have wrote a percussion ensemble piece for her, with Chinese culture. Her audiences at the Asia Manhattan, the Bronx, but I don’t understand more science labs, more space for students to “percussion” being understood not as drums but Society Rockefeller University and Carnegie Brooklyn even though I lived there. I knew congregate, we have mentoring systems that as a hand instrument. The music is such that at Hall, as well as at university campuses around how to get around and where the institutions we never had, we have more students of color. several concerts, Wu Man can also be seen acting the country are typically a mix of East and West, were. CS: What are you working on now? or dancing along with playing. such coming together, of course, the mission of PR: Of all the works that you wrote, do NS: What I am working on now is to reha‑ Although her name is not as familiar as that of The Silk Road Project. She delights in making you have a favorite one? bilitate my body because I was taken by her famous colleague Yo Yo Ma, Wu Man tours appearances in her native country (the recently NS: “Liliane” is my favorite because it is the something called CIDP (Chronic Inflammatory with Yo Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project as both solo‑ released DVD, Discovering a Musical Heartland: most interesting to me, and I worked very hard Demyelinating Polyneuropathy) which means ist and instrumentalist in chamber and orches‑ Wu Man’s Return to China exemplifies her pas‑ on it. And it still surprises me. that my nerves are left wild in my limbs and tra groups. Honors follow honors. This past sion) and also in new venues, such as outdoors PR: If you have to rewrite it, would you arms. I don’t have control of my arms and my December she was named by Musical America, in Australia, where 5,000 people gathered “under have the character make different decisions? legs anymore. I am on physical therapy where “the web’s leading business source for the per‑ the moon, in nature” to hear her solo. # NS: I don’t think so. I think I will write more most of my attention goes now. My focus is on forming arts,” 2013 Instrumentalist of the Year. This coming spring Wu Man will continue of it. It would have been longer. getting my body to work. American movie goers may also know of her by performing and playing her own compositions. PR: You mentioned that you wrote your PR: Can you talk about the book you way of her listing as music consultant to director Readers should go to www.wumanpipa.org for a first work here at Barnard College under wrote with your sister? Ang Lee for Wedding Banquet (1993) and Eat touring schedule and to check out videos of her another name. Why the name change? NS: I will never write with somebody Drink Man Women (1994). remarkable concerts. NS: I didn’t want a slave name. else again. # 14 WOMEN SHAPING HiSTORY 2013 ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

We Remember: Nobel Laureate Rita Levi- Coretta Scott King Montalcini: 1909-2012 & Betty Shabazz By Dominique Carson by Valentina Cordero Rita Levi-Montalcini became a leading neu‑ Recently, Lifetime premiered robiologist in Italy, winning the 1986 Nobel the TV movie, Betty & Coretta, Prize, and was awarded the title of “Senator starring Grammy award winning for life” in 2001 (this title is awarded to an singer, Mary J. Blige and Academy illustrious person who has made a major con‑ Award nominee, Angela Bassett. tribution to society). She died on December The overall theme of the film was to 30th of 2012 in her house in Rome at the age let viewers know that these women of 103, and according to Gianni Alemanno, the stayed strong after their husbands A&E Network Speed, Tracy Courtesy of mayor of Rome, her death was a great loss “for were assassinated during the late all humanity.” 1960s. Coretta and Betty developed As a 1936 medical school graduate of the a long lasting friendship throughout (L-R) Coretta Scott King and Dr. Betty Shabazz University of Turin, her academic and profes‑ the years. Their children developed sional career were blocked by Mussolini’s a lifelong relationship with each other because Coretta made sure the United States paid tribute “Manifesto per la difesa della razza”, not they recognized their mothers’ friendship. Betty to her husband by making his birthday a nation‑ permitting professional careers to non-Aryan Shabazz was married to the late Malcolm X, al holiday, participated in numerous protests for citizens. As a result, in order to continue her the black nationalist who was in the Nation of the apartheid in South Africa, an advocate for work she had to convert her bedroom into a Islam. Coretta Scott King was married to the world peace, demanded equality for the LGBT laboratory, where she studied the growth of Nobel Peace Prize Reverend Dr. Martin Luther (lesbian, gay, bi-sexual, and transgender) com‑ nerves fibers in chickens. King, Jr. He was known for writing his pivotal munity, and build the King Center which pro‑ In 1946, she went to Washington University strong supporter of the women’s movement in speech, “I Have a Dream,” and fighting for moted the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in Saint Louis, Missouri, where she stayed for Italy. A woman who honored Italy, she was the equal rights among African Americans. Betty Shabazz was an educator, a member 30 years. After diligent study, she made her first woman to be admitted to the “Pontificia But Coretta and Betty’s lives changed once of the day care center parents’ organization most important discovery: the nerve growth Accademia delle Scienze”. their husbands died. Betty and Coretta had to in New York and a civil rights advocate. She factor (NGF), a small secreted protein that She never retired because, when she was raise their families by themselves and pick up had to raise six daughters so she went back led to a new understanding of the develop‑ old, she continued to work as a guest professor the pieces in their lives. It was hard for them to finish her nursing degree and her mas‑ ment of the nervous system. The result of and wrote several books to popularize sci‑ because their husbands were their rock. The ters’ in health administration. Shabazz was an her work was the Nobel Prize that she shared ence. Moreover, in 1992, she created — with assassination of Malcolm X was hard for Betty associate professor at Medgar Evers College, with Dr. Stanley Cohen, a biochemist also at her sister Paola — the Rita Levi-Montalcini because her husband was viewed harshly as a teaching health sciences. But her personal life Washington University. In addition to that, she Foundation Onlus with the motto “The Future Muslim pastor who promoted violence. And started to crumble a little bit when her daugh‑ received many other awards, including, in 1983, for youth” in order to promote education for Coretta realized that her husband wasn’t a ter, Quilah Shabazz hired an assassin to kill the Louise Gross Horwitz Prize from Columbia young women all over the world, but particular‑ saint because he had intimate affairs with other Louis Farrakhan. Shabazz died in the most University, and, in 1987, the National Medal of ly, in Africa. In the last eight years — through women. But through it all, Coretta and Betty brutal way! Her grandson, Malcolm lit a fire in Science, the highest American scientific honor. the award of scholarships for admission to loved their husbands and respected their lega‑ her apartment burning 80 percent of her body. Unlike the Victorian customs of her time, primary and secondary school, and university – cies. In the movie, Coretta told Betty, “they” Shabazz died on June 23, 1997. Her grandson, Levi Montalcini knew that the domestic role the Foundation provided economic support for may have killed Martin and Malcolm but “they” Malcolm was in juvenile prison for 18 months was not for her. So, she never married and 10,000 African girls and women. did not kill their ideas. And Coretta was right for manslaughter. Coretta Scott King died seven had no children, but instead became a doctor. “I am not a scientist, I feel like an artist. I because they expressed change, dignity, char‑ years later from ovarian cancer. She faced adversity and prejudice. Her father, didn’t face life as a scientist, but as an artist. acter, education, equality and empowerment in Veteran actress, Ruby Dee, the narrator in the a mathematician, believed that women should We should never forget that in life the important people’s lives especially minorities. film, expressed the strong resolve and success‑ not study, but, against his wishes, she decided thing is acting with maximum coherence, help‑ Betty and Coretta in an effort to keep their ful mission of King and Shabazz to be strong to enroll in a medical school. She was a charis‑ ing other human beings. Life does not end with husbands’ legacy alive, started participating role models for their children. # matic person who fought for the value that she death because the message that you transmit to in various projects that would impact the lives Dominique Carson is a graduate student at believed in throughout all her life: she was a others is immortality,” she said in 2011. # of many, including African American women. Brooklyn College.

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Discovering Ability in Dwight School Rejuvenates East Disability: Education Update Harlem Athletic Facility Holds Outstanding Special Ed Conference Barbara Marks, Architect Ian Wilson, East View Photography East View Ian Wilson,

Rendering of Dwight School Athletic (L-R) President William Dames and Center gym Dwight School Chancellor Stephen Spahn

By late spring this year, the East Harlem and faculty of Dwight,” said Dwight School Dr. Pola Rosen Dr. David Steiner community and students at Dwight School Chancellor Stephen Spahn. will have a newly rejuvenated state-of-the-art “We believe that [the athletic center] will By Gillian Granoff UK, and Australia. The organization is involved sports facility, thanks to the school’s reno- bring a significant economic benefit to the Recently, over 200 leaders, policy makers, in research collaborations with MIT, UAB, Wake vations and its new partnership with 1199 East River Landing cooperative, and a personal students and teachers came together for the third Forest, and Georgetown University. Several of Housing Corporation. benefit to our residents,” said William Dames, New York citywide Education Update’s Special the speakers, including Koplewicz, attributed Dwight School, a leading independent President of 1199 Housing Corporation. Education Conference at Hunter College. The the success of their own children to Lindamood- school located on Manhattan’s Upper West Dwight will use the center on weekdays for keynote speakers covered a range of topics Bell’s programs. Side, entered into a 20-year lease with 1199 physical education classes, team practices and addressing the continuum of emotional, cognitive A unique feature of the conference was the Housing Corporation, the owner of the East games and after-school and summer day camp and neurological challenges faced by students creation of a new award called “Unsung Hero River Landing housing cooperative, for a recre- programs. Joint student-resident programs such with special needs. Award,” given to Dr. Chris Rosa, a univer- ational facility located at 108th Street and First as Saturday sports clinics may be developed While the focus was mainly on the experi- sity assistant dean for student affairs at the City Avenue in East Harlem. Dwight’s upgrades will and the enhancements made to the facilities will ences of young adults with Autism Spectrum University of New York (CUNY). Rosa was a benefit both its students and the residents of the bring fitness, learning and greater quality of life Disorders and Dyslexia the lessons learned were Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the CUNY Graduate East River Landing cooperative. for residents of all ages. universal. The conference gave parents, students Center earning a double major in sociology and The 40,000-square-foot Dwight School Dwight will also offer scholarships to quali- and experts a forum to share their knowledge and philosophy. He has been a tireless champion Athletic Center features a regulation-size high fied residents in need and introduce them experiences. of disabled students at 24 campuses at CUNY school gym, a 25-yard swimming pool, exer- to Dwight’s unique educational philosophy, The day opened with remarks by Dr. David as well as teaching courses. Rosa has Becker cise rooms, locker rooms, saunas and a rooftop which fosters the development of every child’s Steiner, dean of Hunter College who introduced muscular dystrophy, a slowly progressing neu- space with two tennis courts. The Center is individual talents or passions including sports. the three keynote speakers addressing the latest romuscular disease, since the age of 9. He is in slated for operation in late spring 2013. Race Imboden ’11 pursued his passion for fenc- research, technologies and developments in dys- a wheelchair. Education Update will have a Wall “This is an exciting opportunity to cre- ing while a Dwight student and competed in lexia, autism and technology in special education. for Unsung Heroes on the web where each hon- ate shared value for our neighbors in the the London 2012 Games. He is the #1-ranked Chancellor Meryl Tisch presented the first oree will be represented. East Harlem community and for the students fencer in the USA Men’s Foil Division. # of Education Update’s Distinguished Leader in The conference featured an erudite panel of Special Education 2013 award to Dr. Christine speakers including Dr. Sally Shaywitz and Dr. curriculums in a meaningful way. In a power diagnosis. Dylan, now a student at Middlebury Cea, Regent of New York State to acknowledge Bennett Shaywitz from the Yale University point presentation she showed how the Kurzweil College, bravely shared his experiences living her incredible contribution to the field. Center for Dyslexia and Creativity, who helped Software provides adaptive curricula to meet the with dyslexia in high school in an HBO documen- Dr. Sally Shaywitz presented the second award the audience students, teachers, administrators idiosyncratic learning styles of the students using tary produced by his father James Redford called to Dr. Harold Koplewicz, founder and director of and parents of special needs students, to see dys- a variety of visual, auditory and sensory modules. “Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia.” the Child Mind Institute in New York. Koplewicz lexia through the lens of those with the disorder. The conference closed with moving first hand As the speakers candidly shared their personal spoke eloquently about the recent school shoot- Dr. Cecelia McCarton, Founder and Executive accounts of students and parents who have per- experiences they have offered advice to other par- ings in Newton, Connecticut and how its negative Director of the McCarton Center gave an engag- sonally weathered the turbulent tides of life ents of youth with special needs and urged them reverberations echoed through school hallways, ing presentation on Autism Spectrum Disorders with disability. Among those speakers was Dylan to help their children to become their own advo- escalating parental fears and raising intolerance and provided information on the latest research Redford, grandson of Robert Redford who spoke cates by making them informed about agencies to students of special needs He cautioned parents and treatments used to diagnose and treat the ill- with candor and eloquence on his brave battle available to them. Maria Fridas, who struggles against rushing to judgment under the pressure ness. She introduced two schools of thought in the living with dyslexia; Steve McEvoy living with with the stigma of blindness, as a parent of a of irrational fears that reinforce stigmas of other ongoing debate between biological and environ- spastic diplegia, ( a type of cerebral palsy) and child with special needs and emphasized the vital children struggling with special needs; he argued mental factors and how they each influence theo- Vivian Fridas who braves the world without role in memorizing the Individualized Education that these stereotypes have constructed distorted ries about the likelihood that a child will develop sight. Each has thrived not simply survived their Program (IEP) and the New York State laws that perceptions of the true characters of these stu- learning delays or emotional disorders later in life. disability. exist to ensure students disabilities have equal dents; and has served to further marginalize and McCarton’s presentation offered a unbiased McEvoy completed an MA in secondary access to educational opportunities. She urged alienate them. account of the latest research, diagnostic tests, social studies from Teacher’s College, Columbia them to inform themselves of their rights and to Dr. John Russell, Head of the Windward MRI’s and assessments used to diagnose and treat University, holds a NY dual certification in teach- take advantage of the provisions guaranteed to School in New York, presented the third award disability and their role in developing new treat- ing 7th through 12th grader and a BA in history allotment of extra time. to Nanci Bell, the Chief Executive Officer for ments to help teachers help students to manage from St. Michael’s College. In addition to achiev- The conference helped to create a community Lindamood-Bell Learning Processes, an organi- the challenges they face. ing fluency in Spanish and cultivating a talent for of support and build a dialogue to help parents, zation dedicated to helping children and adults Professor Liza Burns, of Landmark College playing Irish music on the violin, McEvoy has educators and students with special needs net- learn to their potential. Bell flew in from her in Putney, Vermont presented the latest break- started a service to provide support, counseling work; and to help them access and use resources offices in California for the award and confer- throughs in assisted technologies including the and resume writing skills to others who struggle to meet the challenge of their lives to become ence. Nanci Bell and Patricia Lindamood founded Kurzweil computer software designed to give with disabilities. successful and productive participants in their Lindamood-Bell in 1986; today there are 50 teachers tools to help students with dyslexia Dylan shared his psychological and academic community, and to confront discrimination with Lindamood-Bell Learning Centers across the US, engage with reading comprehension and writing journey to define and defy the limits of his dignity and turn stigma into strength. # 16 Special Education ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013 Living With Dyslexia: Dylan Redford By Sybil Maimin not a disorder of thought. With proper remedia‑ Aspiring writers are often advised to draw tion and accommodations, people with dyslexia upon their own life experiences for subject can perform very well. In the film, Dr. Bennett matter. Filmmaker Jamie Redford has followed Shaywitz of Yale School of Medicine explains that path to great effect in his documentary for that a Functional MRI shows a neurobiological HBO, “The Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia,” signature for dyslexia, a finding that supports which recounts the challenging journey of his intervention and accommodations. son Dylan who has a severe form of the dis‑ Kyle Redford, Dylan’s mom and a deter‑ ability. The father “felt very isolated and alone” mined advocate (she is education editor of Yale when his son was in third and fourth grades and Center for Dyslexia & Creativity), writes in says that the “evidence of something going on the Center’s journal, “brain researchers now kept mounting.” know that early intervention is essential to The diagnosis of dyslexia left a “great mys‑ transformative remediation and developing Dylan Redford James Redford tery” about Dylan’s future and “how he would alternative pathways,” but admits that parents survive the education system.” The documen‑ usually retreat into denial when early signs of willing to meet me there.” At one point, he was try to accommodate our learning style in your tary is meant to educate the public and dispel the disability appear. The Redfords support allowed to substitute one-on-one tutoring in classrooms.” He also advises parents of the myths about the disorder. “It was very easy to appropriate use of the label “dyslexic,” saying math for attending regular math class. In fourth importance of finding nonacademic supple‑ put myself in the shoes of someone dealing with avoidance of the term will invite other labels, grade, when he left school for part of each mental programs where a student struggling this,” explains Redford. The film also includes such as “stupid.” day to attend an outside reading program, he academically can find easier fulfillment. In the experiences of other individuals with dys‑ Dylan Redford’s story (he is now a junior prevented suspicions, denigrations, or bullying his case, it was art — after school and during lexia. Successful leaders who reflect on coping at Middlebury College in Vermont) offers a by other students by preemptively sitting down the summer. The self-advocacy and learning with the disability in the documentary include model of successful approaches to dealing with his peers and explaining his learning prob‑ tools Dylan honed at Marin served him well at Lt. Governor of California and former mayor with dyslexia. Open, articulate and interest‑ lem and what he was doing to remediate it. He Drake, a local public high school. He did not of San Francisco Gavin Newsom, high pro‑ ing, Dylan is markedly honest. He attended “set a standard of openness and self-advocacy” receive the same close attention as at the lower file lawyer (Bush v. Gore, 2004) David Bois, Marin Lindamood-Bell®Country Day School in Corte Madera, New that York continues Learning today. Center school, but he explained his needs, found a founder of Virgin Records and Virgin Atlantic California through eighth grade (his mother He also credits the school with keeping a counselor advocate and was given support and Airlines Sir Richard Branson, and founder and was a fifth grade teacherNY there) Ed and praisesUpdate the close- March watch on 2013student interactions. Dylan accommodations such as extra time for tests. CEO of the first U.S. discount brokerage firm school for being extremely supportive, flexible urges teachers to try to learn about, understand Getting into a good college was a chal‑ Charles Schwab. and1/2 creative. page “Team Dylan,”(Horizontal) as he describes it, - and10.0” accommodate wide dyslexic x 5.15” students ratherdeep than lenge. He applied to twelve competitive schools Dyslexia involves difficulty learning to read included teachers, tutors and his parents, who attempt to “fix” or “change” them. “It cannot and was only accepted at one. “Dyslexics and may also include problems with spelling, worked together for him. “Whatever my learn‑ be fixed. Do not take our struggles personally,” don’t look right on paper,” he explains. “SAT writing and math. It is a mechanical disability, ing style was,” he explains, “the school was he cautions. “Embrace our differences and then continued on page 19

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This exciting diversification is an “Duality,” a show of paintings and mixed- forming friendships, having fun, practicing new example of how the camp community is meet‑ media works by students of Usdan Center for skills, and summer learning gains — will never ing the needs of today’s families. the Creative and Performing Arts’ Portfolio change. But what are the camp trends today? What activities are popular? Usdan Center Preparation Track program, will be exhibited Who goes to camp? The most popular activities at camps today through March 8, 2013 at the Lobby Gallery, The American Camp Association (ACA) are swimming, arts/crafts, challenge/ropes on the ground floor of 430 Park Avenue in estimates that there are 12,000 traditional, course, archery, and aquatic activities. In addi‑ Manhattan. organized camps in the U.S. Each year more tion, ACA research shows 52 percent of day The theme of Duality stems from the concept of than 11.5 million children, youth, and adults camps and 50 percent of resident camps offered human existence as a struggle between good and attend camp. Today we see a wide range of one or more academic / science and technol‑ evil, emotion and intellect, and how the tension ages participating in the camp experience: from ogy programs. More than four in five ACA- of balancing these forces has affected each art‑ Denise Losee in 2012 at the Usdan exhibit at children as young as three participating in day accredited residential camps offer at least one ist. The artists are: Lauren Bertocci, 12th grade, The Lobby Gallery on Park Avenue in Manhattan. camp programs to senior adults, participating environmental education program for campers. Wantagh, NY; Denise Losee, 12th grade, North The young artist will be in the new show, too. in family camps and senior camps. ACA has Whatever the activity, camp gets kids mov‑ Bellmore, NY; Chaz Scala, 11th grade, Merrick a vision that by the year 2020, over 20 million ing! While at camp, campers are typically NY; Noelle Velez, 11th grade, Riverdale, NY; and Arts Department, worked with Mainhart to children and youth will have a camp experience active three to five hours per day. This exceeds Joshua Toor, 12th grade, Huntington, NY. develop the Portfolio Preparation Track program. each year. the recommended daily amount of physical The program’s lead teacher, Derek Mainhart, Usdan Center is the nationally acclaimed sum‑ What types of camps are most popular? activity from the CDC (one hour per day). is an art teacher at Long Island colleges includ‑ mer arts day camp now entering its 46th season. Traditional camps are still very popular — With so many options, how do I find the ing Molloy, Hofstra, and Boricua. He has been a Usdan is situated on a 200-acre woodland campus maybe more popular today than even a decade right camp? member of Usdan Center’s art faculty for seven in the Huntington area of Long Island. Featuring ago, as young people are very concerned about There is a camp for every child, every inter‑ years. Rochelle Morgan, Chair of Usdan’s Visual more than 40 programs in music, dance, theater, the environment, global awareness, mentorship, est, and every budget! The American Camp visual arts, creative writing, nature and ecology and getting along with one another. The camp Association’s Find a Camp database helps and chess, Usdan Center has introduced the arts to community embraces those values. families find the perfect camp experience — more than 60,000 children, ages 6-18. 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Concussion in Sports THE ETHICS COLUMN by cynthia stein, m.d. Physical activities, like running or jumping, Church of the Cave Man Sport-related concussion is a growing concern and even walking, may exacerbate symptoms By Jacob M. Appel, MD, JD among athletes and those who care for them. As and may need to be limited until the athlete is mastodon — beyond the desidera‑ we become better able to identify the signs and feeling better. Activities that are cognitively Ever since Dolly the Cloned Sheep baa-ed tum of avoiding pain — we really symptoms of concussion, we also learn more challenging, like playing video games, working her way into national headlines seventeen do not have to concern ourselves about the short- and long-term effects. on a computer and reading, may also have to years ago, biologists have fantasized about with the beast’s emotional wellbe‑ What is a concussion? be restricted. Academic accommodations are using similar technology to bring extinct ing. In contrast, a Neanderthal in A concussion is a type of brain injury that needed in some cases, especially if the symp‑ species back to life. Success has so far modern-day society would face interferes with normal brain function. A con‑ toms persist. been limited. Although scientists did man‑ enormous social and emotional cussion is a complex process caused by a direct No athlete should return to play until the age to resurrect the Pyrenean ibex in 2003, stresses. At its best, the process hit to the head, or an injury to the body that symptoms of concussion have resolved. Before three years after its official demise, hopes to seems akin to creating intentionally a child leads to rotation of the head. Most concussions returning to sports, each athlete should go use recovered DNA to incubate a mastodon afflicted with a severe disease or disability for occur without a loss of consciousness. through stages of increased activity to ensure inside an elephant womb have so far failed the purpose of studying that condition. Surely, The most common symptom of concussion that symptoms do not return. Trainers, coaches, to produce results. Despite some nay-saying where our own children are concerned, we is headache. Other very common symptoms nurses and doctors use a variety of tests to look from conservatives, these efforts have largely would never tolerate such experimentation. include: dizziness, nausea, fatigue, visual for signs that an athlete is still suffering from a been applauded by the scientific community. The spawning of a Neanderthal also raises changes, feeling dazed, as well as difficulty concussion, even after the athletes feels better. Cloning lower-order mammals poses minimal challenging questions that our legal and politi‑ with sleep, concentration, memory and bal‑ A number of computer-based neurocognitive risk to humanity, raises no distinctive ethical cal systems would need to address prior to any ance. Some people also experience emotional tests are also available to evaluate for problems dilemmas, and — quite frankly — taking one’s such effort. Would this being have the same changes. For most athletes, symptoms resolve with memory and reaction time that might oth‑ children to see a mammoth at the zoo sounds prerogatives as modern-day humans? Would he on their own within a few days or weeks. erwise be missed. like fun. In contrast, a recent proposal by be entitled to vote? To marry? Would he have a Unfortunately, for some, the symptoms can For some, symptoms can last for months or Harvard University geneticist George Church right to refuse to be studied? Could Church be persist and interfere with daily life. even years. Specialists in concussion care can raises red flags. prosecuted for child abuse after creating such Who is at risk of getting a sport-related work with each athlete individually to discuss Church recently put out a call in the German an entity? concussion? additional options like physical therapy, medi‑ weekly, Der Spiegel, for an “adventurous I have written elsewhere that concerns over Concussions can occur in any sport. However, cations and other available treatments. human woman” willing to serve as a surrogate reproductive human cloning are excessive, certain sports, such as football, ice hockey and How can we prevent concussions? for a hybrid embryo intended to develop into because if the technology ever were perfected, lacrosse, have higher rates of concussion. Even There is no proven way to prevent concus‑ a Neanderthal. The Neanderthals, relatives of clones — like test-tube babies before them in non-contact activities like track and dance, sions. Helmets and mouth guards are important modern-day homo sapiens who lived in Europe — would simply be ordinary human beings concussions do occur. Those athletes who have because they do prevent other types of injury, until roughly 30,000 years ago, have long fas‑ with the same rights, duties and opportunities had a prior concussion are at higher risk than like fractures and cuts, but they have not been cinated anthropologists. Church hopes that by as everyone else. The same is not true of any those who have never had one. Research also proven to protect against concussion. It is bringing to life a Neanderthal clone, scientists prehistoric men that Dr. Church and his adven‑ suggests that in sports played by males and crucial to follow the rules, use proper tech‑ will be able to answer questions about the pri‑ turous female partner may parent. Embarking females, like ice hockey and soccer, female nique and be aware of the ongoing action of mate’s capabilities. He also predicted to Der on such a venture unilaterally, without a strong athletes may be at higher risk. The reasons the game to avoid injury. Any athlete with a Spiegel that the creatures “could even be more societal and scientific consensus, would be a for this increased risk are not clear and are suspected concussion should be removed from intelligent than us” and “when the time comes grave mistake. Even at Harvard, it appears, being studied. play immediately and evaluated. to deal with an epidemic or getting off the every ‘brilliant’ idea is not a particularly How do we treat concussions? For additional information on concussions, planet, it’s conceivable that their way of think‑ wise one. # For the most part, the body knows how to talk to your doctor and check out the CDC’s ing could be beneficial.” Maybe so. Jacob Appel is a physician, attorney, author heal from a concussion, and the main treat‑ website: http://www.cdc.gov/concussion/ The primary ethical problem with Church’s and playwright. He is a graduate of Brown, ment for concussion is rest. Depending on how HeadsUp/youth.html # proposal is that Neanderthals may prove to be Harvard Law School and Columbia University severe the symptoms are, athletes may need Cynthia Stein M.D., M.P.H. is a sports medi- intelligent beings with moral value compatible Medical School. He has been writing for varying degrees of physical and cognitive rest. cine physician at Boston Children’s Hospital. to that of existing humans. When cloning a Education Update for the past 13 years.

already service 900 patients a day, and he ColumbiaDoctors in the Heart of Midtown expects that number to increase to 1,500 soon. The new location has much-needed space for By MOHAMMAD IBRAR occupies multiple floors with physicians and specialists to provide medical Late January marked the official opening of majority of its practices avail‑ services, compared to the previous 60th Street ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, a state-of-the-art able on one large floor of 51 location, which was due for a renovation. medical facility with more than 80 medical Diane Bondareff West 51st St., featuring warm Moreover, Dr. Robyn Gmyrek, a dermatolo‑ specialties and subspecialties ranging from and inviting waiting rooms as gist and chairwoman of the Board of Directors Neurology and Dentistry to Cardiology and well as a sleek contemporary of ColumbiaDoctors Midtown, expressed her Orthopedics. interior. Additionally, its stra‑ delight with the new spacious quarters at the The Columbia University Medical Center tegic location is accessible via Midtown facility. worked in collaboration with NewYork- mass transit. With more than 225 physicians, dentists, and Presbyterian to open the new 125,000-square- “The facility was designed nurse practitioners, the facility is equipped foot facility, providing comprehensive patient with accessibility and function‑ to handle the vast, ever-moving population care. Nestled in the midst of midtown, the ality in mind. That’s why it’s on of New York City. Mark McDougle, senior opening was marked with congratulatory one big floor — it all flows,” vice president and chief operating officer of remarks as well as a ceremonious ribbon cut‑ emphasized Patrick J. Burke Columbia University Medical Center, and Dr. ting by head doctors, directors, trustees and III, assistant vice president of Kenneth A. Forde, a Columbia University board members. Capital Project Management at and NewYork-Presbyterian trustee, conveyed “We were looking to provide the first-class (L-R) Philip Milstein, Dr. Robert Kelly, Dr. Steven Columbia University Medical their satisfaction with the new location and practice New Yorkers expect to have and that Center. “Patients need to feel lauded the one-stop ambulatory medical facil‑ J. Corwin, Dr. Louis Bigliani, Dr. Robyn Gmyrek, they deserve,” said Dr. Lee Goldman, executive comfortable and welcomed ity. Burke commented that ColumbiaDoctors Dr. Lee Goldman, Dr. Kenneth Forde and Mark vice president and dean of Columbia University when visiting their doctor.” Midtown was designed to be “timeless” and McDougle. Medical Center. ColumbiaDoctors Midtown Dr. Goldman stated that they “will be around for a long time.” # MAR/APR 2013 ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ Education update 19 The Public Health Forum Wrestles with Obesity on a City Level

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By Mohammad Ibrar New York City and London. “New York City Obesity is a growing epidemic in the United and London are similar in terms of diversity, States. Alarming statistics indicate that a third populations, ethnicities, and juxtaposition of Philanthropist Laurie Tisch Hunter President Jennifer Raab of U.S. children are obese or overweight, rich and poor.” Despite more than 50 percent which is almost triple the rate reported in 1963, of adults in both cities are suffering from obe‑ Although the city’s legislation to increase remained unchanged, leading the question to according to the American Heart Association. sity, diseases of obesity are prevalent in lower taxes on sugary drinks failed to pass — an portion sizes. “Obesity is about calorie imbal‑ For U.S. adults, more than a third are suffering socioeconomic classes. The disparity may be increase of one cent per ounce, the battle ance, that’s all…too much in, too little out,” from obesity. In New York City, city and health related to access to healthcare, lack of access against sugary drinks continues. The city has Yach said, driving the panel to highlight active officials are trying to curb the public’s appetite to healthier food, poor diet and lifestyle, or stepped up ads that oppose sugary drinks and lifestyles and the negligence surrounding con‑ with graphic ad campaigns seen on NYC sub‑ genetics. She stressed that the disparity can be high-caloric snacks by recently proposing to trolled calorie intake without exercise. ways, calorie counts on menus, and attempts to addressed more effectively at a city level. change food stamp policy to prohibit the pur‑ Professor of Food Studies and Public Health increase taxes on sugary drinks. Recently, The In the Big Apple, city and health officials chase of sugary drinks, in order to sway people at New York University Marion Nestle also fol‑ Joan H. Tisch Public Health Forum held a panel believe they are already moving forward. “We in lower socioeconomic classes to have health‑ lowed Yach’s lead, and emphasized the impor‑ discussion on how city policies can help reduce put in place policies that will be promoting ier diets. And now, health officials are moving tance of reducing calorie intake, but coupled it obesity and other health disparities through city health through improved diet — citywide that forward to minimizing overall portion sizes. with the negative impact it would have on food food policies. will affect everybody, but will have a dispro‑ Farley stated food portion sizes have increased corporations. Many healthy food initiatives The forum convened at Hunter College’s portionate benefit to those suffering the most,” “three to fourfold,” which corresponds to why designed toward regulating food choices to Roosevelt House with introductions by Hunter said Thomas Farley, commissioner of New health issues have increased as well as the aver‑ direct people to choose healthier food options College President Jennifer Raab as well as phi‑ York City Department of Health and Mental age waist size. are besieged by commercial entities as threats. lanthropist Laurie Tisch, Joan Tisch’s daughter. Hygiene. Majority of city food programs have Derek Yach, senior vice President of the She discussed the SNAP program as well as Sue Atkinson, former director of public health three focal points: increase access to healthier Vitality Group, emphasized the need for politi‑ the Soda Cap initiative, which were maligned for London and health advisor to mayor and food, reduce the excess of unhealthy food, and cal willpower to execute policy change, through by companies as programs that inhibit people’s Greater London Authority, set the framework counteract the promotion of calorie-dense food. his own experiences in South Africa, where choice. Nestle advised that city officials and of why obesity is a serious issue. “Obesity is He enumerated some New York City programs policy changes are geared toward displacing health advocates need to work together and a very important risk factor for early death… in place with those priorities, such as the Green the availability of unhealthy foods with healthy solve the ethical conundrum, of controlling the leading to severe chronic diseases: diabetes, Cart program, Health Bucks, Fresh, and Shop foods. Studies have shown that consumption general public’s choice and serve more as an heart attack, high-blood pressure, stroke, stom‑ Healthy. The city is also implementing healthier of healthier foods increased, but the aver‑ invisible hand that continues to offer healthi‑ ach cancers.” She also drew parallels between food options in city buildings, such as hospitals. age body mass index of people in the study er solutions. #

and our nation’s children. Restoring optimism Dylan Redford Molly Roberts Nan J. Morrison for our people and opportunity for our chil‑ continued from page 11 continued from page 16 continued from page 23 dren requires new skills, a keen appreciation for both the challenges and the opportunity scores are an issue. I should have applied to includes an enormous variety of beaded brace‑ About three years after business school, my of globalization and undimmed faith in our schools that don’t require SATs.” He advises, lets, which Molly makes herself, as well as group was reorganized at the firm where I potential to meet those challenges. There is “Interviews are important. Get out there and necklaces, rings and earrings. Her jewelry is was working. I decided that I needed a better so much work to do to bring economic and explain where you’re coming from.” Wait- sold online through her website at www.jewel‑ perspective on my life — and that half way financial literacy to young people. We need listed at Middlebury, a college he chose for rybymollyroberts.com, at New York City bou‑ around the world and two miles up in Nepal to get requirements and standards passed in its intellectual atmosphere, he was eventu‑ tiques and at various charitable events in New should give me the bird’s eye view. I took a every state, and CEE’s local affiliates across ally admitted after his high school counsel‑ York and Connecticut. Through these efforts, two-month leave of absence. No one in my the country are working hard at it. We need to or gave assurances that he could do the work Molly has been able to raise over $18,000 for firm had done this before, but I knew it was provide a framework in every school district and be happy without his accustomed support two Crohn’s-related charities. # the right thing. When I returned, I told the to successfully integrate these lessons into system. Because of his diagnosis, the college CEO what I intended to accomplish, including the everyday life of the classroom. We need ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) office Big Picture: Rethinking Dyslexia.” He explains, making partner in two years. No one was more to raise the bar on financial and economic sends a letter to his teachers explaining require‑ “We all need to connect and be affirmed by a surprised than he was when I did just that. literacy. There is strong bipartisan support for ments for accommodations such as untimed story. There are a lot of stories out there. A The big lesson for me is that nothing is worth this, and it is our intention to keep that alive tests. After two years struggling as a history graph or statistics doesn’t get the job done. The unhappiness; whatever the risk, at some point and push it forward. major, he is switching to his real passion, art job is done with personal stories. They provide you must take up the reins of your own destiny. Along the way, I hope to learn to bake a and, like his father, is interested in filmmaking. hope, which is dearly needed these days.” Future goals: flakier piecrust, see more of my friends, savor Jamie Redford, whose films focus on issues Famed actor and director Robert Redford can The CEE is exactly where I want to be right more sunsets and maybe complete another of social awareness, is especially proud of “The be proud of his son and grandson. # now at this critical juncture for our nation triathlon or two.# T:4.9”

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An Artist with a Flair for Sass, MERCY COLLEGE - THE DEAN’S COLUMN Helen Goldberg Math Teachers Need Flexibility to by Starr Sackstein, NBCT Regaling stories of lavish parties or her rela- Motivate Students tionship with the Japanese art, I listened eagerly By ALFRED S. POSAMENTIER as I helped clear out of the memories of her As President Barack Obama life from her attic. Helen Goldberg, eccentric contemplates his second term, he artist and photographer redefined the way I see should consider how the agenda older people. for our schools should change. Where we find inspiration doesn’t often fol- Mathematics continues to be low any rules. Little did I know when I signed increasingly important, but perhaps up for “Reach out to Seniors” (a volunteer proj- for the wrong reason: It’s one of the ect to fulfill my requirements of “Participation subjects used for the assessment of in Government”) in my senior year of high teachers, principals and schools. school, that I would be meeting a lifelong men- Student achievement on standard- tor and friend, a woman who lives the way she ized tests is a main criterion for wants to this day at the age of 91. assessing teacher effectiveness, and Amid the affluence of the block, the mod- many teachers feel they must teach est house quietly stood out. It didn’t scream event so they had a dressmaker make this for to the test. But motivating students “look at me,” but rather invited me in. The me,” Helen told the story with pride. I don’t requires a great deal of creativity door opened that first day with a delicate, dark remember all the details now almost 20 years from teachers, taking into account haired woman standing behind it. Like the envi- later, but I recall being astonished by the ease a variety of psychological, environ- ronment she lived in, calm emanated from her in her storytelling skill and how nonchalant the mental and cultural factors. presence and washed over me. Upon entering whole thing sounded. I ended up wearing that When I was a new high school her home, I saw the collection of Buddhas from very special dress to my prom. That was just the mathematics teacher in the mid- all over the world and a majestic rock garden beginning of the stories I would come to know 1960s in New York City, I taught that enticed my gaze. Immediately I recognized of her interesting life. a course in general mathematics I was supposed to be there. Helen gave me So often, adolescents ignore the experience of intended for students who were a knowing nod as if to say the universe had the elderly assuming that what they have to say oftentimes truant and largely aim- success-in-math.com, Steven Brunnlehrman, brought us together. will be of no interest. But it was my relationship less. has experienced a similar phenomenon. We climbed the stairs to her studio as she with Helen that has helped me pursue and hone The first topic was arithmetic with fractions, He writes on his blog about his own “ ‘trial showed me around the low-lit house full of my creative outlets and I would have never which the students immediately resisted. On the by fire’ at a very large, inner-city high school.” natural light and a plethora of art in a multitude met her had I not put myself out there at 17. second day, I told students to leave their text- One of his earliest successes wouldn’t be pos- of mediums. Her own pieces intermingling Programs like “Reach Out to Seniors” should books home and instead bring in a pair of dice sible in an environment where teachers must with those Rembrandt and Calder, like friends be fostered in high school settings because they and a deck of playing cards. To my surprise, the adhere rigidly to a set curriculum. A student and contemporaries. Through a small, unused have such a positive influence on both people class was in full attendance the following day, was testing him by bouncing a basketball dur- office, a portal to the past existed and that’s involved. Knowing Helen has changed my life. appropriately equipped. ing class. “I took the ball, bounced it a few where our journey began. Whether helping out in her studio, photo- In those days, the big game on the streets times, and then guided the students through the Around the corner from that space, lay the graphing her art or discussing politics, Helen’s was craps, a game based on probability — your calculations to find the volume of air within the studio, an open expanse with tons of natural perspective on the world fascinates me. What chances of rolling a winning number, such as 1 ball,” he writes. “For that moment the students light and color. Machines of many sizes and she has lived through, endured and traversed out of 6, which can be represented as a fraction. were mesmerized by a real-life application of the infusion of cultural influence that worked paints a delicate framework for a life well I asked one of the boys sitting in the back to math, even though the computations them- its way into all of Helen’s creations. I was lived. Hardships and loss don’t set her back, explain the game, and he reluctantly marched selves were for two grade-levels above them.” filled with hundreds of questions, some that but are merely challenges put forth to create to the front of the room with his dice and The major change affecting many states, she answered intuitively and others that she new opportunities. And each one of these expe- explained the rules in heavy street language. including New York, is the adoption of the let me experience on my own. In recent years, riences, surfaces in her art and evolves with As the class became more comfortable with Common Core standards that U.S. Secretary Helen has entertained my seven year old in this her. Following her example, I strive to fill my these simple probabilities, we applied them not of Education Arne Duncan describes as “an wonderland pulling elements of this and that for students with the passion I feel for literature only to craps but to other dice and card games, important step toward the improvement of qual- him to create. and art. which all required adding and multiplying frac- ity education nationwide.” The Common Core Over the years, Helen has taken an active Richness, color and vitality characterize the tions. Since there were no calculators available State Standards Initiative cautions, however, interest in my life as an educator and writer. journey we have traveled together. Recently, then, I did these calculations for the class. Over that the “standards do not tell teachers how to She has inspired me to persevere and transcend Helen moved to California to be closer to fam- several days, the class had perfect attendance teach … so that teachers can build the best les- the boundaries that tradition creates. I suppose ily. We talk on the phone regularly where she — up from its expected 50 percent. A different sons and environments for their classrooms.” I that’s why we are such easy friends. We ascribe eagerly asks me about family and my career, relationship with math had begun. hope today’s math teachers and the principals to the same values and beliefs despite the gap cheerleading and encouraging me to make One day, some students complained they felt evaluating them will take that to heart. in our ages. time for imagination. Where once I may have handicapped with my performing the calcula- The Common Core State Standards Initiative One story I remember in particular comes shirked my creative identity off as a hobby to tions to arrive at the answer. I knew then that may well recognize that the most difficult part from one of our first meetings together. Digging be done when there was time, Helen reminds I’d won; they now really wanted to learn the of any math lesson is how to implant within around a musky attic in spring, moving boxes me it needs to be what drives me and not topic they had shoved aside. The class mastered students a desire to learn the material. and discarding parts of a life well lived, Helen an afterthought. these procedures and the others that followed, Let’s revisit how we teach mathematics. noticed me lingering over a wardrobe. Inside Influential women like Helen Goldberg exist since they were finally genuinely motivated to Enrich the curriculum and find the best ways were lovely silk gowns like I had never seen. in every community, but we may not know they learn mathematics. to motivate our students to enjoy this critical “I’ll let you have it, if you listen to the story are there. They are our neighbors and teachers Nowadays there is often talk of making math- subject. They will learn math better — and, behind,” she said. “Why not,” I replied. and grandmothers and they are ready to share ematics relevant to students. As I experienced ironically, ultimately perform better on tests — “When I was younger, I visited Vienna with enthusiastically the lessons they’ve learned. We back in the Bronx, it must relate to the interests than they will if we merely “teach to the test.” # my husband and we were invited to attend the can’t discount the elderly as boring or useless, of the students, not necessarily those of the Alfred Posamentier is the dean of Mercy opera with the president of that country. I had we need to embrace what they have come to teacher. An outstanding current math teacher College’s School of Education and the author, not come prepared to attend such a formal know and pay it forward. # who manages a mathematics support website, most recently, of “The Secrets of Triangles.” 22 COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

LAW & EDUCATION And, in many cases, the accused Soiled Merchandise never regains his or her good name and his or her reputation is sullied By Arthur Katz, Esq. aides to Rudolf Giuliani, then mayor of New forever. Moreover, the accusations Richard L. Murphy died on Thursday, Feb. York City, announced that, during 1993, “Mr. can be devastating in which case 14, 2013 at the age of 68 of complications aris- Murphy had overspent his budget by tens the wrongly accused is punished ing from stomach cancer. of millions of dollars, awarding contracts to and with little, if any, opportunity to I did not know Mr. Murphy. His obitu- dubious community groups. … And there were rectify the situation. ary in The New York Times on Feb. 15, signs of a cover-up: A burglar had broken into In the United States, the First 2013 characterized Mr. Murphy as a “social a city office and destroyed a computer disk Amendment to the Constitution pro- policy innovator” with “a track record of with agency records. Electronic gear was sto- tects a person’s freedom of speech building grass-roots community organiza- len. … The city’s Department of Investigation and expression. However, this free- tions and coalitions”. Mr. Murphy, who was opened an inquiry.” dom is not a license to wrongly appointed New York City Commissioner of “A year after the charges were made, the defame another, except when the Youth Services, apparently, was responsible investigation was concluded. Every word in defamed person is a public fig- for keeping “dozens of schools open for the charges was untrue. Mr. Murphy had ure. When a public figure, like Mr. tutoring, exercise classes and other activities underspent his budget and not used it to ladle Murphy, is wrongly accused, actual beyond the usual 8 a.m.- 3 p.m. hours. Thirty- out political gravy. The office that was sup- malice must be shown in order for seven schools, at least one in each district, posedly broken into turned out to not have the wrongly accused to be awarded participated as part of [NYC Mayor David] been locked, and to not actually be missing damages by the Court. And, even Dinkins’s (sic) Safe Streets, Safe City pro- anything. The “destroyed” floppy disk actu- taint just lingers.” when actual malice can be shown, gram.” Among other activities, Mr. Murphy ally worked fine, as long as it was inserted the Fortunately for all of us, Mr. Murphy con- the monetary cost and aggravation arising started the Rheedlen Foundation (which later right direction into the computer drive.” tinued his social efforts and thereafter helped from attempting to pursue a legal remedy usu- became the Harlem Children’s Zone) to help Mr. Giuliani later said that “this happens create the Food and Finance High School in ally just isn’t worth it. truants finish school and “which now provides all the time … and you write about those Manhattan. However, how much more good As a result, too many able and capable after-school and other educational services to things all the time. Sometimes they turn out work might have been accomplished if Mr. people shun a public calling. Thus, the rare 12,000 young people and their families in 97 to be true. And sometimes they turn out to Murphy had not been tainted? example shown by Mr. Murphy’s continuing blocks of Harlem. The effort has been copied be wrong.” There is no good way to overcome false to assist the public good is notable and should in other cities.” But, Mr. Murphy’s professional life was in public accusations. The accusations, when be remembered. # However, Mr. Murphy had another claim shambles. As he commented in connection made, are usually front-page news. However, Arthur Katz, a corporate attorney, is a mem- to fame. In May 1994, according to a Feb. with an article in The New York Times on Jan. when proven incorrect, the retractions (if ber of the New York City law firm Otterbourg, 20, 2013 article in The New York Times, 22, 2008, “I was soiled merchandise — the ever made) never receive the same publicity. Steindler, Houston & Rosen, P.C.

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For more information, contact our Admissions O ce at [email protected] or 212-362-0400.www.yorkprep.org MAR/APR 2013 ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ Education update 25 Review of ‘Make It Your Review of ‘Getting to Bartlett Business: Dare to Climb the Street: Our 25-Year Quest To Level Ladder of Leadership’ The Playing Field In Education’ Make It Your Business: Dare to Climb the world filled with very confident women.” Despite Ladder of Leadership being married her freshman year, and a mother Getting to Bartlett Street: Our 25-Year Quest help these students, as well as a program to during her sophomore year, Montero persevered. To Level The Playing Field In Education show them places beyond their all-too-often By Sylvia M. Montero That’s one of the fundamental messages of blighted neighborhoods. Published by Front Row Press, Denver, CO: 2011. 222 pp. her memoir: surmounting setbacks and obstacles By Joe and Carol Reich. Foreword by Joel Klein. That still wasn’t enough. So the Reiches (poverty, divorce, being a single mother, the Published by February Books, 2012: 160 pp. embarked upon their mission to open a By Merri Rosenberg failure to pass her master’s oral exams the first charter school, “Beginning with Children”, Leadership is one of those tropes that is tossed time around, being fired) and taking advantage By Merri Rosenberg in Williamsburg, Brooklyn — not the cur- around so carelessly that it’s almost become of opportunities that arise. When a translating Amidst the sometimes acrimonious and bitter rent, hipster, expensive Williamsburg, but the meaningless. Yet the need to develop leadership, job led to a job offer at a local pharmaceutical debate about charter schools — and what they Williamsburg of living-below-the-poverty- whether in school communities, or in students so company, Montero took it, which in turn led to mean for public schools — it’s useful to have line Hispanics and Satmar Hasidim during they can achieve their fullest potential, remains her career at Pfizer. this personal, impassioned work explaining the 1980s. a vital one. As her story demonstrates, Montero consis- precisely why Joe and Carol Reich decided to What guided them was the idea that, even if For Sylvia Montero, an aspiring young Latina tently sought challenges that took her beyond enter the charter school field 25 years ago. they were inexperienced in the practicalities of immigrant from Puerto Rico who became the her comfort zone, in the process learning how to As former New York City Schools Chancellor running a charter school, “The only way for- senior vice president/head of global human thrive in a variety of corporate cultures and suc- Joel Klein explains in his thoughtful introduc- ward was to keep going: to do something, even resources for the pharmaceutical firm, Pfizer, Inc, ceed. tion, the Reiches “have too much gratitude to if we did it wrong.” Never mind that the local the lessons she imparts in this memoir are com- Montero writes, “Somewhere in the process of this country, too fine a sense of equity and fair- school board opposed their efforts, or that they pelling. learning the rules of our society, the ins and outs ness, and too deep a belief in the power of edu- were clueless initially about how to organize Her beginnings were inauspicious. Raised in of being a minority in America, I realized that cation to transform even the most challenged bus routes or make sure that school lunches what she terms a “house on stilts” in rural Puerto discrimination was not my fault. I consciously life, to sit this fight out.” arrived when and where they were supposed Rico, without electricity or plumbing, she and her decided not to allow someone else’s problem Joe Reich had started off in modest cir- to be. four siblings absorb their parents’ message that (prejudice) to keep me from getting where I want- cumstances and by the age of 52 had made a On some levels, it helped their school thrive education matters. Her father becomes a migrant ed to go.” She asserts that valuing one’s iden- significant fortune as a pioneer in the field of precisely because the Reiches didn’t know farm worker and the family uproots to New York, tity, and not succumbing to others’ perceptions, money market funds. Eager to do something the rules. As they write, “Our philosophy on somehow managing to live in a one-room apart- is essential in maintaining the self-confidence more, and something meaningful (Carol had, parental involvement was wildly at odds with ment before obtaining a four-bedroom public needed to succeed. become the first woman chair at the Lexington New York City public school tradition from the housing apartment that seemed like a mansion to Montero is also a strong advocate of maintain- School for the Deaf), as well as inspired by outset. Many schools had a yellow line painted the young Sylvia. ing personal integrity, taking responsibility for Eugene Lang, the couple sponsored students in on the street outside the school that parents Embarrassed that the family needed welfare to one’s actions, accepting and learning from feed- the “Dreamers” program. were forbidden to cross…We took the opposite survive, Montero was determined to achieve and back about one’s performance, networking and Introduced to the plight of inner city strug- approach…Other schools worried about how do well — and do good by giving back. A strong always delivering one’s best performance. In this gling students through Lang’s inspired effort to keep parents out. We worried about how to student, Montero earned admission to Barnard me-centered world, her belief that good leaders to guarantee a college education to underprivi- keep the parents in.” College, where, as she writes, “Barnard was my develop and nurture those who work with and for leged students who graduated from high school The Reiches became advocates for the charter introduction to a world beyond my dreams — a them is indeed invaluable. # through the “I Have a Dream” Foundation (the school movement, working to help pass laws Reiches ultimately became sponsors of more favoring charter schools, and the concept that than 60 students), the Reiches soon realized charter schools and public schools could share that more needed to be done. space in the same building, and founding the Review of ‘Generation On A As they write, poignantly, “The more we Charter Center. got to know our kids, the more we began to And in an arresting move, the Reiches offer realize that we wanted to do more than simply each book purchaser a $25 charitable gift code Tightrope: A Portrait Of Today’s pay for their eventual college tuition.” So the (embedded at the back of the book) to benefit College Student’ Reiches developed a mentoring program to the classroom of your choosing. Nice. # undergraduates. Their research, based on 5000 accelerate for them. Generation On A Tightrope: A Portrait Of ting or chatting with their parents as they stroll students and student affairs practitioners, at In the midst of sometimes agonizing conver- Today’s College Student across campus — they are frequently more 270 college campuses around the country, illu- sations about the role of traditional universi- dependent on their families than is probably minates the attitudes, aspirations, beliefs and ties, on line college education, even the purpose By Arthur Levine and Diane R. Dean. good for them. values that distinguish this current cohort of of higher education itself in the midst of a less- Published by Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, California: It’s a group that is more influenced by the college students. than-robust economy, having this portrait of 2012. 227 pp. web, and probably Facebook, than by the The reality they confront is challenging today’s college students is indeed invaluable. # terrorist attacks of September 11 or even by indeed. As the authors write, this is “a gen- By Merri Rosenberg Barack Obama’s election. These students are eration of college students who were born, It’s hard to escape the message that today’s comfortable forming digital communities, but grew up, and will live their lives in a nation college students aren’t like previous genera- not necessarily interested or engaged in more undergoing a transformation from an analog, tions (but then again, when were any college traditional on-campus activities. national, industrial society to a global, digital, students exactly like those that had preceded The authors, Arthur Levine, president of information economy.” The economy is unwel- them?). Technologically connected and adept at the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship coming. Change is unrelenting, and rapid; navigating the web in ways that astonish their Foundation and former president and professor for a generation that seems to crave stability elders, they are often socially isolated from of education at Teachers College, Columbia more than adventure, they will emerge into their peers. Comfortable with their parents in University, and Diane R. Dean, associate pro- “a nation enduring unrelenting and profound ways that shock baby boomers — with parents fessor of higher education policy and admin- change at a speed and magnitude never before who are often reluctant to let them go, many of istration at Illinois State University, have writ- experienced,” with an almost certain guarantee today’s college students think nothing of tex- ten a nuanced, thoughtful portrait of today’s that both the pace and scale of this change will 26 COLLEGES & GRADuate Schools ■ EDUCATION UPDATE ■ MAR/APR 2013

Learning & the Brain St. John’s Red Storm On April 10, Learning & the Brain will be on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and presenting a one-day symposium for educators co-author of Raising a Self-Disciplined Child: Women’s Team Nearly in New York City. The theme of this year’s sym- Help Your Child Become More Responsible, posium is “Student Mindsets and Motivation: Confident, and Resilient (2009). He will Topples UConn in Thriller Attitudes, Stress and Performance”. be addressing the topic of “The Power of This one-day symposium will bring cognitive Mindsets: Nurturing Motivation and Resilience By Richard Kagan head down the stretch. “She has no fear,” scientists, psychologists and educators together in Students.” If there was ever a “feel good” defeat, coach Tartamella noted. “She’s really stepped to explore the role that mindsets, attitudes, Afternoon speakers include Paul Tough, this game was it. The St. John’s Red Storm up for us.” anxiety and goals play in student success and the author of How, Children succeed: Grit, women’s basketball team nearly stunned the SJU made its shots in the first half, hitting achievement in life and school. Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 20-1, #3 ranked Huskies of the University of 53.6 percent in the first half. They made big Educators who attend this symposium will (2012) and Edward M. Hallowell, MD, author Connecticut recently at Carnesecca Arena. baskets and kept the Huskies on its heels for learn about some of the latest strategies to use of Shine: Using Brain Science to Get the They had everyone in the stands hold- most of the game. “They made a lot of shots to make students more successful, motivated Best from Your People (2011) among nine ing their collective breath. But UConn made I didn’t think they would make,” said UConn and resilient. other speakers. the critical plays in the closing minutes to coach Geno Auriemma. The opening keynote speaker will be Sian This event is produced by Public Information pull away 71-65, to go to 7-1 in the Big Handford and guard Briana Brown kept SJU Beilock, PhD. Professor of Psychology at the Resources, Inc. and co-sponsored by the Dana East Conference. in it in the first half. Smith only had six points University of Chicago and author of CHOKE: Alliance for Brain Initiatives, the Motivation The Huskies prevailed despite the absence and starting point guard Nadira McKenith, had What the Secrets of the Brain Reveal About Science Center at Columbia University, the of Junior Stefanie Golson, averaging almost four points. But Smith hit a long three pointer Getting It Right When You Have To (2010). Program in Neuroscience and Education at 14 points per game. Golson took ill before the from the corner to put SJU up just into the She will be speaking on the topic of “Learning Teachers College at Columbia University and game and couldn’t play. However, great teams second half; the play seemed to say, “We are and Performance in School: Mindsets, Attitudes both the NASSP and NAESP among other orga- find a way to get it done in adverse situations, here to play today.” and Anxiety.” nizations. # and UConn pulled this one out of the fire. Tartamella told his squad at the half, “We are This will be followed by Heidi Grant The symposium will be held at Alfred Lerner St. John’s played well. The team passed the not going away.” They didn’t. Halvorson, PhD, who is the Associate Director Hall on the campus of Columbia University. ball to the open player and that player made Smith found her shooting touch and scored of the Motivation Science Center at Columbia Learning & the Brain® will also be hosting a the shot. The game was tied at halftime at 15 points in the second half, and at one point, University and author of Success: How We Can three-day educational conference in Arlington, 35. It wouldn’t be decided until senior guard the Red Storm had a 51-46 lead with 11:19 to Reach Our Goals (2011). She will speak on VA from May 3 to May 5 on the topic of Kelly Faris hit a trey with 1:16 to play, to give play. But UConn has players like Faris and “How the Science of Mindsets and Motivation “Executive Skills for School Success: Self- UConn a 67-60 lead to avoid the upset bid. Kaleena Mosqueda-Lewis who also played Provides the Key to Unlocking Our Children’s Regulation, Reasoning and Working Memory” Red Storm coach Joe Tartamella praised the well. Lewis scored 19 points and 10 rebounds, Fullest Potential.” featuring more than 40 speakers including team for stepping up its game. “These young and Faris scored 17 points and made some big The final keynote of the morning will be Howard Gardner, Martha Denckla, Daniel ladies played so hard today,” Tartamella said. shots in the second half. Robert B. Brooks, PhD, who is a psychologist Willingham and Russell Barkley. “We’re really happy.” The Huskies made some adjustments and St. John’s (10-10, 4-4) got 21 points from worked hard to earn a tough win. Junior guard guard Shenneika Smith. Aliyyah Handford, a Bria Hartley scored 10 points for UConn. freshman from Newark, NJ had an outstand- Smith, one of the top scorers in Red Storm Touro Hosts Educational ing game, scoring 17 points and keeping the history, seemed hopeful that St. John’s may Huskies off-balance for most of the game. have found its game. “This right here is what Gaming Workshop She has come on strong in recent games and we needed,” Smith said. “This might be the figures to be a key contributor as the Johnnies corner that we turned right here.” # The Touro College Graduate School of development applicable toward the New York Technology sponsored the Winter Gaming state teacher certification requirements. GST Institute, a workshop for educators to learn hosted a gaming institute last summer and is to create educational games for top mobile planning others for the spring and summer. # OOH LA LA! Degas & Renoir devices and platforms. Prof. Irina Berman Touro is a system of non-profit institutions By Jan Aaron used Microsoft’s GameSalad Creator soft- of higher and professional education and the Morgan shown in sketches takes a vertical ware to demonstrate to teachers and current has approximately 19,000 students currently In this Education Update issue devoted to not lateral direction. His positioning the figure Touro students to develop desktop, mobile enrolled at sites in the New York, California, women, a show dedicated to the artist Edgar near the top of the canvas was necessary to and online games that can be incorporated into Nevada, Berlin, Jerusalem, Moscow, Paris Degas (1844-1917) especially is appropriate. call attention to the immense distance beneath. their curriculum. Participants received certifi- and Florida. For more info, go to: http://www. Identified with ballet dancers, indeed one-half When Degas lacked expertise, he called cates for completing six hours of professional touro.edu/media/. of his works depict ballet dancers, Degas also in specialists to help with his work, as some found inspiration in the circus. And if you go modern artists do. For instance, when he had to the new show at The Morgan Library and trouble with the complex beams of the Cirque Museum, you’ll find exuberant evidence of Fernando, he hired an architectural draftsman Errata his fascination with the circus in the exhibition to do the job. Also at the Morgan, see “Marcel In the article “A Perspective on Yet Another of students achieving state standards has only “Degas, Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando” Proust & Swann’s Way 100th Anniversary” Reform for Special Education in New York City increased from about 5.7 percent to 7.2 percent (Feb. 15-May 12). (Feb. 15-April 28), depicted in assorted inter- Schools: The Thirteenth Labor of Hercules” by between school year 2005-06 and school year The painting was first shown in the fourth esting memorabilia and marvelous photos. NYU Professors Mark Alter and Jay Gottlieb, 2010-2011 on the 8th grade ELA assessment. Impressionist exhibition (1879) at London’s Look forward to the movie “Renoir:” the following is the corrected copy: This percentage of students achieving state National Gallery. It depicts a woman of mixed Mention this artist’s name and immediately the The clearest evidence for this is that a new standards is not very different from the percent- race noted for amazing feats as shown in this mind conjures beautiful women. Now drawing reform has just been implemented, and although age of special education students who read at picture where she is being hauled to the circus inspiration from the painter’s vibrant can- the number of students with disabilities who grade level in the early 1990s, before the era of roof by a rope held between her teeth. The vasses, this gorgeous film focuses on artist’s participate in state assessments has increased high standards and accountability, when about circus was in Montmartre, and later known as twilight years and his last luscious muse on the markedly, by about 25 percent, the percentage 4 percent read on grade level. Cirque Medrano, a popular sketching venue lovely Cote d’Azur. Opening end of March. for artists. Watch for dates and theaters in local media. # The Morgan show is replete with sketches The Morgan Library and Museum, 225 depicting how Degas developed this work. Madison Ave., 212-685-0008, “Degas, His investigation of how to give importance Miss La La, and the Cirque Fernando” to the main figure when not centrally placed at Feb. 15-May 12 MAR/APR 2013 ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ EDUCATION UPDATE 27 A New Era for Women in Sports: Title IX at Year 40 By Rich Monetti high school sports. Now reaching 3.1 million, At the after school program I work at in economist Betsy Stevenson of the Wharton Westchester, six-year-old Anna Laura displays School at University of Pennsylvania has done no fear while running into the corners against a state-by-state study to put actual numbers on boys twice her size. She is participating in a what that little smile and big tenacity means. make shift game of indoor hockey that we play Separating sports from a number of other fac- with ping pong paddles and a rubber super- tors, she found participation led to a 20 per cent market ball. “She doesn’t get intimidated,” increase in women’s education and a 40 per says 11-year-old Stephen Mains, but had she cent rise in employment for women aged 25-34. grown up in an age minus Title IX, it’s not just Apparently having a very good sense of how her athletic acumen that would have been in significant Title IX would be, Senator Birch jeopardy of never reaching full development. Bayh of Indiana give the proposal its proper In a speech at Dartmouth recently, U.S. due when it was included as part of the 1972 Gold Medal Soccer player Julie Foudy made Education Reform Bill. an equitable comparison to Anna’s corners Insightfully, he kept it all relatively quiet. and extrapolated the impact outside the lines. Floating the 36 word clause as a hiring and “Learning how to give a speech before hun- employment measure, he made sure no one dreds of thousands of people,” she says, “it’s lobbied for it. “If we lobby, people will ask ok, I can do this, because I’ve already done it questions about the bill and they will find out on the field.” what it would really do,” Bayh revealed in the A little closer to the air the rest of us breathe, documentary, Sporting Chance. the leadership skills Foudy developed over Thus sneaking its way to Nixon’s desk, the a sport’s life helped create a culture of hard impact didn’t become clear until the govern- work, team spirit and goal setting on the U.S. ment published rules that gave colleges three national team and it’s safe to say, no athlete in years to comply with the gender equality provi- her own personal learning ever needs to leave sion of the overall act. such things on the field. Of course, the establishment of law didn’t Otherwise, at this point, Anna Laura is necessarily create change, but luckily there mostly unencumbered by many of the triviali- were already women athletes exercising leader- ties of her peers and always has a smile on her ship that outpaced the old order. At Yale, for face. While probably just part of her make up, instance, the women’s rowing team did not it certainly doesn’t hurt that she loves to get out have showers like the men. They’d get on the there and give it everything she’s got. bus overheated from practice, and without a Something her two older brothers have shower to refresh, a cold too often awaited always encouraged her to do, but for girls them. less lucky, the possibility that this inclination Anna Laura, for one, has what it takes, but would remain uncovered was far greater in she’ll definitely need others to take her lead 1973 when only 300,000 girls participated in while she’s busy here showing the boys. # Disabilities Under Nazism and Fascism at the Italian Academy By Valentina Cordero the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum “The Unfit: Disabilities under Nazism and in Washington D.C. Fascism” took place at the Italian Academy During the event, David Forgacs (New York for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University), showed pictures about disabled peo- University in New York recently. The event, in ple at different mental hospitals where they were connection with Holocaust Remembrance Day, kept in Germany and Italy. In fact, unlike other was organized in order to commemorate the vic- victims of the Holocaust — like the Jews, Roma tims of the Shoah on the date of Auschwitz libera- and Sinti, gays and lesbians, — disabled were tion in 1945. The conference was organized with systematically murdered in state hospitals and the collaboration of the Italian Cultural Institute institutions where they were staying temporarily of New York, Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò, and for health reasons. Centro Primo Levi. The most extreme measure was the so-called The main goal of this program was to explore “Euthanasia Program” that was in itself a rehears- people with mental and physical disabilities, al for Nazi Germany’s broader genocidal policies. like schizophrenia or other mental illnesses, The program (known also as T4) started in 1939, that during Fascism and Nazism were judged after Hitler promulgated a decree that empowered incurably sick. They were killed by starvation, physicians to grant a mercy death to those patients medication or in gas chambers. About “400,000 that were considered incurable. Adults were not people were sterilized in Germany because they the only ones to be murdered; by 1941, 5,000 were considered unworthy of life,” said Susan disabled children were killed. Bachrach described Bachrach, the Curator of Special Exhibitions at World War II as a demographic devastation. # 28 Education update ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ MAR/APR 2013 Barbetta Garners Award School in the News from Wine Spectator

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Susan Finn, Principal of PS 169 in program. The students all viewed a movie Thomas Matthews, Executive Editor of gnocchi. In spring and summer, dining al Manhattan along with Marcia Steinberg, “Darius Goes West: The Roll of his Life” Wine Spectator, has just named Barbetta, in fresco in the garden with murmuring fountains Assistant Principal started a program called about a boy with Duchenne’s. Students then the theater district, a classic restaurant not to is an incredible experience. An antique harp- P169M Has Heart. Every month they adopt a had to write personal reflections in response. be missed both in its fine cuisine and elegance. sichord coveted by the Metropolitan Museum charity and raise money for that charity. The goal is to raise $250 to help in the The wine list holds a Wine Spectator Best and the gracious hospitality and expansive Recently a fundraising campaign was held fight against Duchenne muscular dystrophy of Award of Excellence. It evokes the his- knowledge of Laura Maioglio, daughter of the to raise money for “Charley’s Fund, “ to try in honor of Charley Seckler and his grand- tory of Piedmont with dishes called Risotto founder, are part of the unforgettable ambi- to find a cure for Duchenne muscular dystro- mother, Janet Kramer, a volunteer for 25 years Piedmontese, white truffles, and incredible ance.# phy. An awareness campaign is part of the at PS 169.

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www.mercy.edu | 877-mercy-go www.mercy.edu/education | 877-mercy-go MAR/APR 2013 ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ EDUCATION UPDATE 29 Dean Mary Brabeck Leads NYU college of Steinhardt Policy Panel mount saint vincent By Yuridea Pena mately serve as exemplars for other urban Advocates of the Common Core State areas. According to Mr. Casserly, the vast Standards affirm that the new rubric for teach- majority of urban school districts have suf- ing and learning will raise standards, reduce ficient knowledge of the standards to begin achievement gaps, and increase college readi- implementation, however, people were less ness for the 21st century student; at an NYU confident about the skills of the school-based Steinhardt policy breakfast in February, experts staff as the implementation was rolling into the addressed an anxious audience about the road- classrooms. “The districts staff that had more blocks school districts across the nation face professional development and structures in with the implementation of these new standards place such as professional learning communi- and assessments. ties by in large were more confident,” he said. The event, Common Core Challenges; Some audience members aired their concerns Assessment, Achievement, and Outcomes was about implementing the Common Core with the second installment of a three-part series shrinking budgets, limited resources, while focusing on how the standards will be evaluated others expressed problems with exposing the GRADUATE EDUCATION OPEN HOUSE among students, teachers, and schools. Panelists new standards to English Language Learners March 6th and May 8th • 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. included Roger Benjamin, president, Council and students with special needs. President’s Reception Room, Riverdale Campus for Aid to Education; Michael Casserly, execu- “Everyone is predicting the test scores will Light refreshments will be served tive director, Council of the Great City Schools; go down,” said Renee Young, a retired prin- and Lucille E. Davy, senior advisor, James B. cipal. During the event, she asked panelists Learn more about the Mount’s MS TESOL and MS Urban & Hunt Institute for Educational Leadership and if they have considered phasing in the test Multicultural Education Programs! Policy. incrementally because third graders will take So far, the new standards adopted by 45 the new exam this year without instruction states and three US territories require educa- within the new system. “They are going to take To register for the event contact Ellen Lynch, Graduate Admission Counselor at tors to teach the K-12 grade-specific standards the test but they had not had the benefit of K, (718)405-3320 or [email protected]. in English Language Arts, Mathematics and 1, and 2 instruction aligned with the Common Science with expectations that are age appro- Core,” she said. Panelists said the focus for priate, and aligned to the College and Career now should only be on the use of the test. “ I Practical. Affordable. Exceptional. Readiness (CCR) standards. 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But his story can be anybody’s story — help you reach your dreams faster with its his Mount faculty, which he conducted on the a collection of international films that highlight who has been adopted. It is a portrayal of one School of Professional and Continuing Studies’ telecom industry, the structure and finances of the plight and concerns of individuals who deal person’s experience of learning one has been (SPCS) master’s and certificate programs for Level 3, and its competition, Reyes is on track with disability in their own lives, their families adopted: the reactions of the (now) man, the sup- adults. Our experienced SPCS faculty teach to reaching his dream to be CEO of his own and their communities. It is a remarkable festi- port that friendship engenders, and, significantly, high quality master’s programs in Business company. val, now in its 5th year, that can teach, move and the differing views of the husband and wife who Administration, Urban and Multicultural “I gained a job in this increasingly com- impress the average viewer, which is all of us. raised him — whether and what to tell him. Education, Teaching English to Speakers of petitive economic climate,” he says. “I am truly Films touching on the lives of people who live Go and be moved, come away with greater Other Languages (TESOL), and Nursing. The grateful to the Mount for giving me the neces- with physical, emotional and developmental dis- understanding of issues that affect people you College also offers an Accelerated Nursing sary tools to get the job. I learned a lot through abilities, plus a dance performance of integrated encounter in your daily goings on. These are real program for adults who already have a bach- the collaboration.” dancers, i.e. with and without impairment, make dilemmas, with universal implications. # elor’s degree. James Vazquez ’06, ’12 M.B.A. also credits for a memorable experience. I had the chance to The film festival takes place in NYC and sur- Andres Reyes ’13, who was offered a posi- the Mount with providing the tools, guidance, witness two shorts: rounding counties (24 venues in all) including tion with Level 3 Telecommunications based and support he needed to succeed. He grew up “Be My Brother” charms you from the start the Guggenheim Museum, the Jacob Burns Film on his hands-on experience collaborating with near the Mount and knew he would eventu- with its exquisite animation, if only introducing Center, libraries, arts centers and the JCC in the company while earning his M.B.A. at the ally attend one of its exceptional, affordable the title, plus equally beautiful photography fol- Manhattan. The full schedule can be found at Mount, was attracted to the excellent graduate programs. While in graduate school, he landed lowing. In 8 minutes you get to understand the reelabilities.org (where you will also see the 12 programs held in a small classroom setting and a job with J.P. Morgan Chase & Co., where dilemma of a young man with Down Syndrome other cities around the US hosting it; or by call- the SPCS faculty’s personal attention. he is assistant vice president and senior client — his relationship to his unaffected brother, ing (646) 505—5708). 2013 is also the first year “At the Open House, I had a chance to speak service professional in the bank’s Government the charm he can muster with strangers, his the festival will occur in New Jersey, in the week with the professors and, in particular, Dean Services-Connecticut and New York Region acting talent and the loss he feels at not being following the NYC festival. of the School of Professional and Continuing division. able to work (or the appropriate work not being Karen Kraskow is a Learning Specialist in Studies Edward Meyer,” Reyes says. “We “The College created a sense of security in available to him). Concise and well-directed private practice in Manhattan. She works with talked about the program and what kind of obtaining a degree,” Vazquez says. “I knew that (by Genevieve Clay) it is worth every min- children and adults who are ‘reluctant to write,’ attention the students would be getting…I pre- I could approach professors and other faculty ute. (You can find it under the heading “Reel early readers and early mathematicians. fer a classroom where there is a free exchange with confidence that they would do their best Encounters 2013.”) For more information go to www.linkedin. of ideas and one has to defend their views to help. The College has built a reputation of Coming Home,” grouped under the series of com/in/karenkraskow. against the scrutiny of others. At the Mount, not producing capable students.” # 30 EDUCATION UPDATE ■ For Parents, Educators & Students ■ MAR/APR 2013 Education Update 3rd NYC Special Ed Conference

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