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May 1, 2015 4:03 pm
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Left to right: Michelle Breaker, Stephen Hegedus, Creola Smith, Jeff Solomon, Charlene Tate Nichols, and Curtis Hill
Josiah Brown sent in the following report about an event in which he took part.
On April 29, the Literacy Coalition of Greater New Haven and Gateway Community College held a late-afternoon forum at Gateway downtown. Panelists considered “Why Is Math Important?” from the perspectives of educators from the elementary grades to college, and from a business point of view.
Parents from high-performing Engineering and Science University Magnet School (ESUMS) are asking why the Board of Ed plans to reduce its funding next year while boosting support for other schools.
Donna Carlson was a nervous wreck before her Clinton Avenue School fourth-graders took the Common Core field test last year. She worried not that her students would fail at using the necessary online tools for the test — but that she would.
Board of Education members unanimously approved a proposed $425 million budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Wednesday, it heads to the Board of Alders.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Apr 28, 2015 8:25 am
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Metropolitan Business Academy ninth-graders gave teachers tips on how to be more inclusive of students of all genders — such as including students who don’t identify as male or female, and avoiding seating or grouping students based on gender.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Apr 27, 2015 8:13 am
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HSC candidates Montes and Ricardo.
MBA candidate Quezada.
When Isabel Quezada lists all the extracurricular activities she pursues , “people think I’m amazing and great,” she said. But the budding public office-seeker wants to people to know that’s not true — that it’s New Haven itself that’s amazing and great.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Apr 20, 2015 11:02 am
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Kimberly Sullivan has a lot of opinions on education policy to share with the district. But she said she would prioritize the voices of her student constituents if elected to serve on the Board of Education.
As the board moves to include two non-voting high-school student members, Sullivan is the only one so far to throw her hat in the ring.
Shaina Blumell is the first person in her family to apply to college, and she learned the basics of applying for financial aid from an app — which she shared with her classmates at Career High School.
When Laura Cross was asked to put together an after-school program for Nathan Hale School just before the fall semester, she got on the phone and started building a coalition of parents to help run it.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 27, 2015 1:05 pm
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Playing to a full house at the Shubert, Ammon Downer and Tanaiza Glass set the beat and a joyous tone for their talented crew of singers and dancers from the Edgewood School in “A Friend Like Me,” from the musical Aladdin.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 26, 2015 12:39 pm
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Don’t bully.
And kiss those you love every day.
Those were among the concluding messages that child Holocaust survivor Endre Sarkany delivered to a rapt of audience of 60 fifth-graders at Roberto Clemente Leadership Academy.
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Allan Appel |
Mar 25, 2015 2:20 pm
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Montana Telman as Georgia Hendricks, leading the dancers.
Nearly three dozen actors, 20 student musicians, 12 techies, and a new all-student dramaturgy team have created a murder board in the lobby of Co-op High.
A murder board is a good thing. It’s all part of the school’s presentation of Curtains, a charming play-within-a-play backstage murder mystery musical comedy, as its all-school spring show.
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Aliyya Swaby |
Mar 24, 2015 2:49 pm
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Velazquez: Students should learn to self-advocate.
While giving a presentation in a high school classroom, Lola Garcia-Blocker had to ask a student being particularly disruptive to leave the room. Instead of sulking or causing a ruckus, the student left calmly — and later sought her out to apologize for misbehaving.
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Lewis Nelken |
Mar 20, 2015 12:58 pm
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This is the third of three essays about musician and composer Chris Brubeck‘s teaching in Wilbur Cross High School’s music classes from Feb. 27 to Mar. 5 as part of his artist in residency program with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. The first essay, written by Brubeck, ran the day before yesterday. The second essay, written by Stephanie Persiani, a sophomore at Wilbur Cross, ran yesterday. Lewis Nelken is a junior and started playing trumpet in band last year, but now plays French horn, tenor and alto saxophone, trombone, and clarinet. He is also learning to play double bass. He is on the band leadership team and is drum major/band captain.
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Stephanie Persiani |
Mar 19, 2015 2:02 pm
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This is the second of three essays about musician and composer Chris Brubeck‘s teaching in Wilbur Cross High School’s music classes from Feb. 27 to Mar. 5 as part of his artist in residency program with the New Haven Symphony Orchestra. The first essay, written by Brubeck, ran yesterday. The third essay, written by Lewis Nelken, a junior at Wilbur Cross, will run tomorrow. Stephanie Persiani is a sophomore at Wilbur Cross and plays trumpet in the band and jazz ensemble. She is on the band leadership team and is trumpet section leader.
