The Erie Canal is a unique and priceless public resource that deserves a thoughtful, creative, and inclusive management plan—one that preserves and restores the scenic, shady canal path.
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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.
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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.
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The positive trajectory of the UR-East High partnership
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The Educational Partnership Organization’s significant investment in East High went beyond financial resources. It involved highly qualified teachers and staff with the heart and fortitude to do the work and to reexamine their own practices, resulting in a program that aligns with a clear vision for academic achievement and preparation of scholars for college and career.
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Solving the RCSD crisis requires collective change
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Whenever a student in our city falls behind, it is a failure that our entire community shares, and we as a community must come together behind the efforts of ROC the Future to forge a solution.
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Charter schools are helping to solve Rochester’s education crisis
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Charters stand ready to be partners in the difficult work that faces the Rochester education community. Most successful models of urban education reform have embraced charters, as well as many other innovative models.
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Lessons of the Hour: a review
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Isaac Julien’s video installation tells a visually splendid story, but doesn’t ground Douglass in his marriage, his children, his Blackness. It evades the hideousness and savagery of bondage and forced labor, in order to construct mythic imagery.
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Rochester needs socioeconomically diverse, cross-district magnet schools
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Research shows integration. Segregation has terrible consequences, not just for children trapped in high-poverty, poor-performing schools, but for our entire community.
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Privacy law is coming
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Privacy law is picking up steam across the country and abroad, with numerous bills threatening hefty fines or consumer class-action liability for noncompliance. Because compliance takes time, businesses must begin efforts now to comply with privacy laws not yet in force, even while it remains unclear who it is that will ultimately do the regulating.
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Connecting the dots on ‘Connections’
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On WXXI’s talk show, time did not allow a full rebuttal to another guest’s assertion that wealth is “immoral” and “obscene.” What’s really wrong in New York is how the government aggregates power by taking money out of the economy and creating criteria by which we might get it back.
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Looking for career preparation? Consider the liberal arts
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In the context of workforce development, liberal arts programs and courses are often overlooked except for their capacity to instill students with the “soft skills.” And yet, the modern tech boom is replete with stories of startup founders, presidents and CEOs who studied the liberal arts.