Sarita Brown, of Excelencia in Education, talks about the challenges and opportunities for Latino students.

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New ways of understanding college costs.

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Lessons Learned and Questions Raised Following the Virginia Tech Shootings.

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A crisis real or imagined?

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What’s become of the promised overhaul? Experts talk about the student loan scandal and offer advice for students and parents.

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The Hall Monitor catches New York University President John Sexton in the hallway of Columbia University’s Teachers College, where he comments on rising tuition and the call for greater budget transparency. He also talks about the university’s expanding footprint - both in New York City and beyond.

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Is big time sports spending squeezing academics? These panelists think so!

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Mike English, of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, talks about the foundation’s commitment to higher education.

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Do college rankings offer a useful measure of accountability or do they just elevate anxiety levels? The editor of U.S. News & World Report faces off with top college presidents at the Hechinger Institute’s forum on higher education.

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Rockland child and education advocates were among hundreds of people participating in a 12-state push today to get the U.S. Senate to reconsider the U.N.’s Convention on the Rights of the Child.

The UN treaty grants basic rights — survival, for instance — to the world’s children. Proposed most recently in 1989 (earlier versions appeared in 1924 and 1959), it was ratified by 193 members of the United Nations — everybody but Somalia and the United States.

Many of the people who participated in Friday’s briefing at Rockland Community College were part of last year’s push to get the federal No Child Left Behind law modified. With that debate still on-going, several of the advocates are helping local supporters of the CRC get more attention publicly and politically.

For information on the CRC, visit www.childrightscampaign.org.

There’s some interesting new information in the article by the Larchmont Gazette about the story of the two Hommocks Middle School guidance counselors who have been removed from their posts.

The counselors, Elizabeth Denhoff and Haruko Hirose, are already involved in an action against the district. They may think the charges are in retaliation – though the teachers’ union president says she doesn’t believe the reassignment and grievance are related. That apparently has to do with a school community dinner that they were expected to attend.

Anyone know what dinner that was?

If someone has filed disciplinary charges of any kind against them, that would start a proceeding under state education law called a 3020A.

And that would mean the only people who can open the process to the public are the two counselors. I hope they do.

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Nope, I’m in NYC!

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Irvington schools will hold a community conversation forum on Monday, Nov. 19 to discuss ways to improve the district’s educational programs. Read more of this entry »