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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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Richard Sheridan believes “the greatest competitive advantage in our modern economy is a positive and engaged brain.” Could Rochester deploy his idea of joyful workplaces as a regional economic strategy?
The second half of our “Made in Rochester” tour of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., includes a movable school chair, three Kodak cameras, a “candlestick” telephone and a very special red silk shawl.
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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