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The New York Times Upfront was first published in 1999, but it arguably has roots dating back to Scholastic's earliest days. [1] The company's first high school magazine was called The Western Pennsylvania Scholastic and it evolved and changed names over the decades, becoming Scholastic Senior and Update.
In 1983, The New York Times published an article that cited a passage from the "Pursuit of Excellence: Education and the Future of America" by the Rockefeller Brothers' Fund's panel, "America at Mid-Century." [3] The "excellence" movement of the mid-1980s, was inspired by the landmark report, "A Nation at Risk. [4] [5]
The 1619 Project is a long-form journalistic historiographical work that takes a critical view of traditionally revered figures and events in American history, including the Patriots in the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers, along with Abraham Lincoln and the Union during the Civil War.
The New York Times celebrated fifty thousand issues on March 14, 1995, an observance that should have occurred on July 26, 1996. [267] The New York Times has reduced the physical size of its print edition while retaining its broadsheet format. The New-York Daily Times debuted at 18 inches (460 mm) across.
He worked reporting on education at the Tri-City Herald of Kennewick, Washington, for a year. [7] In 1983 he became an employee of The New York Times, and has been there ever since. For his first year, his position was the clerk of James Reston, the senior columnist.
In 2015, a letter to the New York City Department of Education from 52 parents, former students and teachers naming specific schools ultimately had the effect, and the city, in a rare move in the history of nonpublic schools in New York, especially yeshivas, launched an investigation. The probe stretched eight years due to an accommodating ...
Educated spent more than two years in hardcover on the New York Times bestseller list [18] and is being translated into 45 languages. [19] The New York Times ranked Educated as one of the 10 Best Books of 2018, [20] and The American Booksellers Association named Educated the Nonfiction Book of the Year. [21]
The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States proposes including LGBT curriculum in school health and sex education classes. Their proposed curriculum would aim to teach students, over the course of their K–12 education, to understand sexual orientation as well as gender roles, and treat others with respect, among other ...