Lower East Side Archives - Page 14 of 22

ByNora McCarthy 0Comments

Home Girl

After years of waiting, the Lower East Side Girls Club has found a home.

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ByNora McCarthy 0Comments

Focus on Fixing the Schools: Social Promotion

Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?

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ByEsther Kaplan 0Comments

Focus on Fixing the Schools: Pass Discrimination

The nation’s school testing frenzy is failing qualified minority teachers, with little proof that high scores on certification exams have anything to do with good teaching.

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Quick Reviews of: Misplaced: New York City’s Street Kids; Settlement Houses Under Siege: The Struggle to Sustain Community Organizations in New York City; Muckraking!: The Journalism That Changed America

ByCity Limits 0Comments

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Economy Justice

In Case Plan “A” Fails…

A roundup of likely budget casualties if NYC fails to garner additional funds from Albany and Washington.

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Truth, Justice and the American Way: Seema Agnani

Founder, Chhaya Community Development Corporation

ByArun Aguiar 0Comments

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ByMichael I. Schiller 0Comments

Praying for a Temple

A Taoist temple loses its home to developers-and threatens karmic consequences.

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