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    Rhody McCoy
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    Rhody McCoy, the school administrator who led the Ocean Hill-Brownsville community school district experiment in 1968, has died at the age of 97.  Many educators   […]

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    Mark Lilla, a professor of humanities at Columbia University, has an op-ed ( see below)  in today’s New York Times entitled, “No One Knows What’s Going to Happen”.  He pleads fo […]

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    President Donald Trump launched a Twitter tirade against Fox News on Thursday — the second one this week — accusing the network of “doing nothing to help Republicans” and himself […]

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    Much of the country remains unlikely to venture out to bars, restaurants, theaters or gyms anytime soon, despite state and local officials across the country increasingly […]

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    Another 2.4 million workers joined the nation’s unemployment rolls last week, and there is growing concern among economists that many of the lost jobs are gone for good. With over 38 m […]

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    In a landmark decision, the University of California announced yesterday that it will drop the SAT and ACT tests as admission requirements by 2024.  The UC’s governing body, the Bo […]

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    Dear Commons Community,Norma McCorvey — otherwise known as “Jane Roe” of Roe v. Wade, the landmark Supreme Court case that legalized abortion in the United States — said before her deat […]

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    A new model coming out of Columbia University indicates that if the United States had begun imposing social distancing measures one week earlier than it did in March, about 36,000 fewer […]

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    Mariel Sander
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    Mariel Sander thought she would spend her final month at Columbia University going to parties, taking a modern dance class and road-tripping over spring break to five […]

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    It is May and generally it is the month when colleges look at the preceding academic year and start planning for the new one.  This year has been unlike any other as the coronavirus […]

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    Today I will be on a Webinar panel to discuss Online Learning: Policies, Practices, and it’s Future in the Face of COVID-19, hosted by Roosevelt House and the National Center […]

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    A livid Donald Trump flipped out after being criticized by Fox News’ Neil Cavuto (see video above) for taking the drug hydroxychloroquine, which has specifically not been approved […]

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    Tomorrow I will be on a Webinar panel to discuss Online Learning: Policies, Practices, and it’s Future in the Face of COVID-19, hosted by Roosevelt House and the National […]

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    All over the world, there have been complaints from students, parents, high-school counselors and admissions officials, about problems with the Advanced Placement online exams. Many […]

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    Five sailors on the USS Theodore Roosevelt at anchor in Guam due to a COVID-19 outbreak have tested positive for the virus for the second time after reportedly […]

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    Rebecca Sibilia
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    Rebecca Sibilia, Chief Executive of EdBuild, a school funding advocacy organization, has an op-ed in today’s New York Times that makes a compelling case that it is t […]

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    Max Boot

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    The Washington Post’s Max Boot imagined World War II taking a very different turn in his latest column concluding that if President Franklin D. Roosevelt had taken Tr […]

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    I want to thank my students at Hunter College this semester for their participation and willingness to adjust to the move of our courses to online mode during the coronavirus pandemic.  […]

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    The coronavirus pandemic  has transformed how Muslims in Israel and the Palestinian Territories are experiencing Ramadan. E […]

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    There is a striking contrast in how two presidents have handled their responsibilities during national crises.   When Barack Obama was elected and immediately had to deal with the G […]

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