Skip to main contentRemainders: Obama's back-to-school speech igniting conflict
By | September 4, 2009, 12:08am UTC - A technology expert is heading up a team of 30 city businessmen to advise on vocational schools.
- Advocates for Children surveyed city candidates on education issues.
- USDOE’s lesson plans for Obama’s back-to-school speech no longer tell kids to “help the president.”
- City schools won’t have to grapple with whether to show the speech, because they won’t have opened.
- Rick Hess says Obama’s education department is just as insular as it was under the Bush administration.
- Going back to school shouldn’t end children’s fun, according to a leading champion of playtime.
- A veteran teacher has beginning-of-the-year advice for newbies, whom he tells to work hard.
- Brooklyn police officers are getting ready to crack down on start-of-school teen-on-teen crime.
- International Walk To School Day is Oct. 7; New Yorkers are invited to create PSAs for the occasion.
- If you’re not among the masses spurning back-to-school shopping, visit the Queens Center Mall.
- A teacher suggests that “resource rooms” did better at helping students when they actually had rooms.
- A California parent (and former reporter) vows to volunteer in her daughter’s school, and a needier one.
- A teacher unearthed sweet sentiments from her former students while setting up her classroom.