News from the past week:
Arts Education and Graduation Rates (New York Times)
Lanes for Buses Only, and New M.T.A. Chief Means It (New York Times)
Ruling Eases Transgender Name-Change Process (City Room)
Competing visions spark turf war in Longwood Park (Hunts Point Express)
Green Energy Alternatives: The Theme Park — It’s Happening, on Ward’s Island (gbNYC)
Hot for farmer! (New [...]
News from the past week:
“Any place can become a park” — thoughts from Adrian Benepe (Urban Omnibus)
More Schools Encourage Commuting by Bike (City Room)
Pushing for paid leave when kids get sick (EDLP via Voices That Must Be Heard)
First 9/11 lesson plan to be tested in New York, six states (Daily Challenge via Voices That Must [...]
Originally posted by Jung Fitzpatrick, who manages our Public Service Graduate Education Resource Center. For more about graduate degrees, follow along on Facebook or Twitter @gradresources.
The New York Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good is this Thursday, September 10, at NYU.
We’re about to kick off the 2009 fall season of our Graduate Degree Fairs [...]
My newest hobby and source of exercise is rock climbing (artificial, so far). I’ve checked out a couple of indoor climbing walls in the city, and at one of the gyms, I spotted a flyer for Wednesday Night Rock Climbing at New York City Outward Bound. It advertised a five-story outdoor climbing wall near Queens [...]
News from the past week:
Teacher of Young Rikers Inmates Curates Student Artwork in B’klyn (Brooklyn Eagle via Nostrand Park)
What’s Capacity got to do with my City? (Frumination)
FEASTing in Brooklyn (Brooklyn Based)
AIDS Activists Seek Gains Amid High Infection Rate (City Limits)
Trying to Return Oysters to Jamaica Bay (City Room)
Homelessness, Man’s Best Friend and a Hard Choice [...]
Recent news items:
Judge Rules Against Applebee’s Lease in Harlem Building (City Room)
Postal Service Unveils Large ‘Green’ Roof (City Room)
Whose South Bronx Greenway is it anyway? (Mott Haven Herald)
Troubling Findings in NYC Schools (Bank on It)
Sikh Coalition grades New York City Department of Education on school bullying (South Asian Times via Voices That Must Be Heard)
Is [...]
News from the past week:
Standing Up for Bees (supereco)
Progress Is Reported in Bronx H.I.V. Testing Campaign (City Room)
Voices of Iranian-Americans Are Heard (City Room)
On Governors I., an Organic Farm With a View (City Room)
Answers About Urban Wildlife (City Room)
ELL parents conference held in New York City (The Indian Express via Voices That Must Be Heard)
Education [...]
We’re gearing up for an event next week, and we hope you can join us! It’s our summer Graduate Degree Fair for the Public Good, where you can meet with representatives from over 60 graduate programs in fields such as divinity, education, environmental sciences, nonprofit management, policy, public health, social work, and socially responsible business.
Thursday, [...]
News from the past week:
Brooklyn Students Paint the Pavement (video!) (Streetfilms)
The Eric Dutt Eco Center Groundbreaking (video!) (Video Pancakes)
School Network Honored for Helping Immigrants Assimilate (City Room)
A Newspaper Seller, a Gift, and a Mystery (City Room)
City Tells Schools to Monitor On-Campus Military Recruiting (City Room)
‘Shalom’ and ‘Salaam’: Day Schools embrace Arabic (The Jewish Daily Forward [...]
News from the past week:
Free Museums Welcome the Littlest Learners (City Limits)
Seeing Green: New Jobs Lead to New Visions (City Limits)
More Than Blackboards on the Walls (City Room)
Ask About New York City’s Community Murals (City Room)
Vacancy Decontrol Is Hurting New York’s Immigrant Communities (RaceWire)
Sickness and Health in East Harlem (RaceWire)
Green way to create jobs, save [...]
