Archive for 'Education'
Entrepreneurs start young at M.S. 223
Posted on 17. May, 2012 by By Anika Anand.
A Mott Haven middle school is preparing its students early for life in the complex world of customer service and bottom lines, through a partnership that helps them put their business ideas to work.
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Green Team offers youngsters $8 an hour jobs
Posted on 27. Apr, 2012 by Editor.
Friends of Brook Park is assembling a South Bronx Green Team Collaborative to build a new compost system in Brook Park on East 141st Street and Brook Avenue. Students between 13 and 19 years old who live or go to school in the 10454 or 10455 zip codes are eligible for the summer jobs, which [...]
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A green-themed party for Earth at St. Mary’s Park
Posted on 25. Apr, 2012 by By Anika Anand; Video by Kenneth Christensen .
Residents learn about recycling, conservation at annual festival For the fifth straight year, Bronxites gathered at St. Mary’s Park to celebrate Earth Fest, sharing ideas for innovative ways to green the planet. Representatives from businesses, community organizations, and city agencies combined on April 21st to promote environmental initiatives, through information kiosks, activities for kids and [...]
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From the editor: Art for all
Posted on 11. Apr, 2012 by Bernard L. Stein.
Now that the Bloomberg administration has converted New York’s public schools to sweatshops for the manufacture of standardized test scores, students have to look elsewhere to learn about and be inspired by art. That’s where museums and exhibit spaces come in, and, fortunately, the Bronx is leading the way by offering first-class work at a [...]
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SoBRO offers free financial literacy workshop
Posted on 08. Apr, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
A free workshop will be held at SoBRO on Wednesday, April 11, between 6 and 7 p.m. to provide financial planning tips and strategies. SoBRO’s financial education coordinator Stephane Hyacinthe will present ways to best utilize tax refunds, save for retirement, establish good credit, develop a solid budget, and to get ahead of the debt [...]
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New exhibition celebrates the Bronx
Posted on 06. Apr, 2012 by By Amora McDaniel .
Works by 32 artists show borough’s many sides at Freedman House Once known as the “home for poor millionaires,” an elegant mansion on the Grand Concourse has burst to glittering life as the home of a new art exhibit featuring 32 artists whose work meditates on the Bronx’s past and future. Connoisseurs and artists mixed [...]
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Bronx museum offers free admission, school programs
Posted on 03. Apr, 2012 by cunyjschool.
The Bronx Museum of the Arts has begun offering free admission at all times, to expand access to more visitors and to help ring in the museum’s 40th anniversary.
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For Gompers, it’s game over
Posted on 10. Mar, 2012 by By Claudia Bracholdt.
Melrose is going to lose what used to be its largest high school. Four weeks after the Department of Education’s Panel for Educational Policy finally decided to let Samuel Gompers Technical High School phase out, the school’s teachers are frustrated with a decision a lot of them already had expected.
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Teen pregnancy rates remain high
Posted on 17. Feb, 2012 by By Claudia Bracholdt.
As the city has started to introduce a new sex education program for middle and high schools, Mott Haven has emerged as the neighborhood with the highest teen pregnancy rate in the five boroughs.
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Arts help kids learn, study finds
Posted on 10. Jan, 2012 by Joe Hirsch.
Students from PS 132 in Morrisania posed in front of a mural they made of the neighborhood. The school is one of five in the area that teaches using an acclaimed, arts-based curriculum. Five Morrisania charter schools are among 15 in the city that have been honored for using a curriculum that improves student performance [...]
