Education
Hyde Leadership Charter School Celebrates Its 1st High School Graduating Class
Innovative family-based character education model helps class of 2013 achieve 95% college acceptance rate.
Bronx High School Of Science Principal To Retire
The embattled principal of Bronx High school of Science is stepping down. The city’s Department of Education says Valerie Reidy is retiring and had planned to do so before this current school year....Help 15 Kids From Bronx
Help fifteen high school students from Bronx and five dedicated teachers to have a Summer of learning that could change their lives - and change the way kids learn all across America....
The Learning Tree School - 8th Grade Trip To India
The Learning Tree Cultural Preparatory School (“TLT”) is a private school located in New York City. TLT has been serving children in surrounding communities for more than thirty years, providing an excellent learning experience from early childhood through eighth grade....
Guns N' Roses Guitarist Ron Thal Jams With Bronx Students
On Wednesday, Guns N' Roses guitarist Ron "Bumblefoot" Thal partnered with Gibson and the Little Kids Rock music program to deliver free guitars and jam with students at Mott Hall Community School in Bronx....Bronx Students' Math App Wins Contest
Sixth-graders from the Bronx Academy of Promise are getting recognition for designing an app that helps teach math....Jon Favreau & E.L. Doctorow At Bronx Science Gala
What do eight Nobel Prize winners, five Pulitzer Prize winners, Academy Award and Emmy winners and my husband, Joseph Leon (‘46) — at one time director of the Electron Microscope Laboratory at Columbia University — have in common?...Guardians Of Rescue & Urban Animal Alliance To Visit P.S. 85
Guardians of Rescue and The Urban Animal Alliance, two organizations committed to helping animals, have teamed up to give the students at Public School 85 in Bronx a presentation on compassion. The two groups will join teachers in carrying out the “Circle of Compassion” presentation, in an effort to help children learn more about having compassion for animals. The presentation will be held at the school on April 30, 2013, at 9:00 a.m....
Bronx High School’s Holocaust Museum
For Eric Stern, the Holocaust Leadership Class at the Bronx High School of Science was “probably the most formative experience I’ve had to date.” Stern spoke this past Friday at a reopening ceremony of the Holocaust Museum and Study center at the high school....
Kids Comic Con Returns To BCC
Returning to the campus of the Bronx Community College, the seventh annual Kids Comic Con (KCC) will kick off on May 11, 2013 with more than 30 exhibitors, including Viz Media, Papercutz, Archie Comics, Jim Henson/Sesame Street and Scholastic Book Fairs, in addition to a slate of panels, film screenings and hands-on workshops on creating comics....Bronx Principal Appears In Gangster Movie
A new controversy is brewing at a Bronx elementary school over a violent low-budget movie....
UPS Empowers The Developmentally Disabled To Discover Their Inner Artist
25 developmentally disabled individuals have taken up their paint brushes and discovered their "inner artist." They participate in a monthly arts skills program run by Unique People Services (UPS) held at the Bright Harp Residence in Jamaica, Queens....
Girl Scouts & Sigma Gamma Rho Help Girls Imagine Engineering Careers
Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) will join forces with Sigma Gamma Rho, one of the nation's largest African American sororities, to help build awareness of career possibilities in science, technology, and engineering among girls and parents in the African American community....Bronx Principal Gets Bad Rap Over Sexy Videos
Many workers have hobbies that they pursue in their off-hours, but if their side passions are at odds with their day job, they can find themselves in big trouble. Case in point: Emmanuel Polanco, a Bronx junior high school principal who appears in videos as a rapper called "El Siki."...Icahn Charter Schools Open To 2014 Applicants
As of Friday, February 1, 2013 – Wednesday, April 3, 2013 we will be accepting applications for students entering Kindergarten – 8th grade in September 2013....Make Education In NYC A Priority
The current bus strike hurts kids. Serious negotiations could have avoided this debacle. It is a tragedy to use kids as pawns in an adult battle which could have been settled at the negotiating table. Surely, the Mayor needs to balance the budget but not on the backs of defenseless kids....Rally To Keep School Open
A Roman Catholic school in South Bronx that has been in operation for more than 100 years could close come 2013....Bronx Student Earns Degree
Northwestern State University of Louisiana at Natchitoches, LA awarded degrees to 849 students Friday at Fall Commencement Exercises in Prather Coliseum....Program Teaches Bronx Youth About Art & Entrepreneurship
“Gays love it,” she says. She has connected with a network of artists that push her to experiment, she has participated in two art shows and she has already sold five paintings — for $150 in total....Bronx Middle School Teacher Forced Students To Pray
A Bronx middle school teacher has admitted to forcing her students to pray, after an investigation by the DOE. Not only did she order students to “sit in a circle and sing and pray to God"—she also had her “class re-enact scenes from the life and death of Jesus.”...
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