Rabbi Dr. Bernard Lander, the visionary founder and president of Touro College, which he grew from 35 students to a global network of 29 schools educating 17,500 students in New York, California, Nevada, Florida, Israel, Russia, Germany and France, died Monday of congestive heart failure at a New York hospital. He was 94.Mr. Lander, known […]

Bernard Lander’s successor has finally been named — and he’s not from within Touro College’s ranks. His name is Dr. Alan Kadish and he was recently appointed Touro’s senior provost and chief operating officer. Kadish, an Orthodox Jew who is a physician by training, most recently served as senior associate chief of the […]

At 94, Rabbi Bernard Lander, founder and president of Touro College and Touro University, is among the longest-serving college presidents in the U.S. Though his eyesight is severely impaired due to macular degeneration, this educational visionary’s mind is as sharp as he is active. Lander, who holds a doctorate in sociology from Columbia […]

As one-laptop-per-student initiatives catch on in public schools nationwide, the need for better security is more pressing than ever. That’s because as portable computers proliferate in our classrooms, so do loss and theft. Memphis City Schools, for example, is beefing up its laptop-security policies after nearly 1,800 machines — close to 1 in 4 — […]

The tough economy spells bad news for public schools. As states put the squeeze on already tight education budgets, school districts nationwide are looking to cut back without sacrificing too much. As a result, funding for classroom supplies is growing increasingly scarce when it’s not being eliminated altogether.
That means teachers are spending their […]

Each morning last winter, the sixth graders in Beth Pollak’s classes at MS 328, in New York City’s Washington Heights neighborhood, took turns at the front of the room getting in touch with their inner weatherperson. With studied aplomb, they forecasted that day’s weather, be it hot and humid or cold and dreary.As they had […]

Public schools are searching for a few good men — male teachers, that is. Men accounted for less than one-fourth of all teachers in 2006, according to statistics released recently by the National Education Association (NEA), and there is little indication of that figure changing anytime soon.Although education has historically been a predominantly female field, […]

First it was the student loan scandal, which revealed that lenders were illegally paying off college financial aid officers, and resulted in a tightening of student loan requirements and higher interest rates. Then the flailing economy led to increased unemployment and decreased financial stability. So it’s not entirely unsurprising that more college graduates are beginning […]

Karen Kliegman wants her students at Searingtown School, in Albertson, New York, to view themselves as docents — knowledgeable guides who can lead their class along the route of a famous seventeenth-century explorer. And she has found the technology to make this possible.She assigns each of her fourth-grade students an explorer to research — Columbus, […]

Students struggling to master academic subjects no longer have to poke their hands in the air, stay after class, or hire an expensive tutor. Instead, they can go online.
A crop of e-tutoring services has sprung up in recent years, offering inexpensive online alternatives to in-person educational tutoring. Most of these sites cater to parents, who […]