My life as an army ROTC cadet and Barnard student
Balancing a Fordham ROTC-Barnard workload can be tough, but also very rewarding.
The best of both worlds
The Ohio Department of Education recently spotlighted an innovative partnership between Dayton Public Schools and Sinclair Community College that has established a unique Tech Prep high school in Ohio.This holds special significance here at Fordham, as it is named after David H. Ponitz , a Fordham trustee and the venerated president emeritus of Sinclair Community College. This fall, 550 teenagers began attending the David H. Ponitz Career Technology Center . It offers students the chance
Ready or Not, Here They Come: National Standards in Education
When I first heard rumblings about a possible move towards national K-12 education standards (made by Education Secretary Arne Duncan and AFT President Randi Weingarten), I was definitely in favor of the idea. The Fordham Institute had just released a study demonstrating the tremendous variance in academic standards between states, and I couldn’t believe that a student who, for example, got a top score on a standardized test in one state might not even be able to pass the equivalent test g
