How the challenges and limitations she faced shaped one parent’s journey across the Rochester City School District, charter schools and homeschooling.
Education
Learning from the Holocaust
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On Jan. 27, heads of state from more than two dozen countries are expected to attend the commemoration of the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at the Auschwitz-Birkenau Memorial. However, there is reason for concern that awareness of the Holocaust is fading and anti-Semitism is on the rise again in this country—including Rochester—and abroad.
Education
Local colleges recognized for voter participation
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As part of the national All in Campus Democracy Challenge, they boosted student voting rates in the 2018 midterm elections.
Community
Expanding access to graduate programs
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A St. John Fisher College program offers employees at partner organizations a 20 percent tuition discount on a range of masters and doctoral programs.
Education
RIT students win ROC the Project challenge
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Their plan, “The Common Source,” was geared to help Rochester’s M.K. Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence—this year’s partner for the Project Management Institute’s competition held by the local chapter.
Education
Graduate students on the rise at RIT
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The university has more doctoral students than ever before and plans to add six to 12 programs to its Ph.D. portfolio.
Education
State education chief puts the RCSD on notice
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Interim Commissioner of Education Beth Berlin wants the district to do more work to bring itself in line with the distinguished educator’s 2018 recommendations.
Education
Which local college has the best ROI?
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A new nationwide report examines the net economic gain—both long term and short term—from attending college.
Education
Rochester chosen for education initiative
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The city is one of seven nationwide selected to identify ways to remove barriers to basic needs for post-secondary completion and workforce success.
Education
Saunders gives $7.5 million more to RIT
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The latest gift from the entrepreneur, whose donations to the university now top $25 million, will fund a major renovation and expansion at the Saunders College of Business.
Education
State’s interim education chief to exit
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Beth Berlin is slated to leave Nov. 15. Her former boss, MaryEllen Elia, stepped down as commissioner at the end of August.