Islands High principal headed to Italy
By Jenel Few Danielle Pinkerton spent four years working to build a high school the entire county could be proud of, not just the islands community. Now, she's going to Rome. Pinkerton, who opened Islands High school in 2010, will leave the Savannah-Chatham County public school system on June 30 to become head of an international sch...
Ten reasons to study Italian at Rosebank's Garibaldi-Meucci Museum
The Garibaldi-Meucci Museum, a borough cultural gem and historic landmark in Rosebank, is suggesting 10 reasons to sign up for its 12-week Italian-language classes that start Sept. 15: 1. You're planning a trip to Sicily next summer.2. The Italian language is close to Latin, the source of 60 percent of the English vocabulary.3. You want to be one...
La lingua italiana dei migranti
Con il titolo Lingue Migranti, la sesta edizione della conferenza annuale del Calandra Institute ha aperto un interessante spaccato sulle relazioni tra la cultura italiana e altre culture. Tra giovedì 25 e sabato 27 aprile, nel corso di una tre giorni di presentazioni e dibattiti, 42 congressisti hanno parlato di lingua e identità nella diaspora de...
Longtime Batavia educator Sam Rotolo dies
Sam Rotolo believed strongly that nobody, not even a teacher, should try to take away a child's dignity. Even when that child had to face discipline for breaking a rule at Batavia Junior High School, of which Rotolo was principal for 23 years. "There's a saying that says, 'Kids don't care how much you know, they want to know how much...
La Association of Italian Educators raccoglie i frutti di 15 anni di lavoro per migliorare l'insegnamento dell'italiano
Il quindicesimo appuntamento annuale "Educators Awards" della Association of Italian American Educators che coincide con il 2013 Anno della Cultura italiana negli Stati Uniti, è stato festeggiato domenica da centinaia di persone presso la sala ricevimenti Chateau Briand situata a Carle Place a Long Island. L'annuale premiazione e consegna di borse...
2016 Advanced Placement Italian Exam Registers Highest Total of Students to Date, Making AP Italian the Fastest Growing of All AP Foreign Language Courses
Margaret I. Cuomo, M.D., president of the Italian Language Foundation, announced today that The College Board's Advanced Placement Italian Language and Culture exam (AP Italian) in 2016 saw its highest level of participation ever. "We are delighted that nearly 2,800 students took the AP Italian exam in 2016," Dr. Cuomo said. "With each pas...
New York’s First Italian Dual Language Preschool Coming To Bensonhurst
Bensonhurst will be getting two Italian dual language classrooms at a brand new school coming to 73rd Street and 15th Avenue this coming school year. One UPK class and one kindergarten class will incorporate the Romance language at P.S. 768, which is set to open at the current site of Our Lady of Guadalupe School (7301 15th Avenue) in Sept...
7 Yonkers students honored with Enrico Fermi Scholarship at Westchester Manor in Hastings-on-Hudson
A group of local graduates were honored at a yearly tradition in Hastings-on-Hudson Sunday morning.Seven Yonkers students received the Enrico Fermi Scholarship at Westchester Manor during a special breakfast ceremony. The scholarship award was started in the Italian-American community 51 years ago. The breakfast was attended by local...
Laurearsi sulle due sponde dell'Atlantico
di Maurita Cardone Si è svolto giovedì al Consolato Italiano di New York l'incontro dal titolo Italian American Cultural Relationships in a Changing World, promosso dal Centro Interuniversitario di Formazione Internazionale H2CU della Sapienza Università di Roma. L'evento si inserisce all'interno del programma per il 2013 Anno della Cultur...
Italian students in NY for cultural exchange
A group of Italian women students completed a cultural exchange programme in New York run by the National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) in collaboration with the Foreign Ministry. In alternate years the programme hosts Italian women in New York and American women in Rome. Six Architecture students and one in History of ArtThis ye...
Brooklyn. Una scuola di lingua italiana
La Federation of Italian American Organizations di Brooklyn ha salutato domenica, con il 37esimo gala presso la sala ricevimenti El Caribe Country Club, l'imminente avvio del primo Centro culturale comunitario di New York, a cui seguirà un progetto altrettanto ambizioso: una scuola di lingua e cultura italiana. All'appuntamento hanno partecipato,...
2nd Bilingual Fair Is Further Proof That Bilingual Education Is Booming
The 2nd Bilingual Fair in NYC will be held on October 3, 2015 at Hunter College. For the second year in a row, the bilingual education community will be in a single space. Founder, Emmanuel Saint Martin comments, "Last year we started with the conviction that the demand for bilingual education was stronger than ever. This year's edition is muc...