Four Questions
A $3.5 million gift for future generations at RIT
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Chance Wright, a 2018 advertising photography graduate, explains why he made the largest single donation ever to RIT’s College of Art and Design.
Education
Readers respond to the Beacon’s education forum
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The May 13 event focused on two levels of intervention in the city schools to improve their performance: state action and local initiative empowering individual schools.
GUEST OPINION
In RoCo’s massive 6×6 exhibition, everybody’s an artist
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Rochester Contemporary Art Center’s 6x6x2019 exhibition, slated to open June 1, will once again feature artwork from thousands of artists. The online preview begins today.
Education
The search for RCSD solutions
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A Rochester Beacon forum this week on ways to fix the city schools drew a packed house. “There are no silver bullets,” keynote speaker Christopher Cerf said. “The key is implementing 100 one percent solutions.”
Entrepreneurship & Innovation
How RIT and UR are enabling more students to pursue ideas and individualized studies
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Like all organizations in the 21st century, Rochester’s universities are evolving and innovating their “product.” More students today want the freedom to explore ideas and pursue degrees outside the confines of traditional classes.
Education
Rochester City School District gets new chief
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Terry Dade, who currently serves as an assistant superintendent of the Fairfax County, Va. Schools, is expected to join July 1, at the start of city’s and school district’s fiscal year.
Culture
Appreciating our lilacs, in 7 photos and 10 facts
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In 1898, some 3,000 people gathered in Highland Park to smell lilacs planted by famed horticulturist John Dunbar. Today, a half-million people take part in the 10-day Rochester Lilac Festival. Here are some things you may not know about these beautiful and fragrant symbols of renewal and love.
Health & Science
A supply-side catastrophe
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The behavior alleged in the recent civil and criminal actions brought against Rochester Drug Co-operative and other opioid distributors and manufacturers is reprehensible. But they are not the only ones responsible for the explosive, deadly growth in the supply of the addictive drugs.
GUEST OPINION
Community schools remove barriers to learning
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Community schools are both places and a strategy for organizing resources around children, families and neighbors. School No. 17 is proof of what these schools can accomplish in Rochester.
Community
Why I refuse to live inside the box of race
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It hasn’t been easy acknowledging that I am of a different race than the majority in the United States. It’s been even more difficult understanding what to forgive as ignorance and what to call racist. But this I know: I no longer want to be labeled or pigeonholed.