EDITORIAL: A Neutered Democracy
Last week’s elections were a joke. Public schools were closed so a handful of voters could go to the polls to pull levers for candidates and issues they knew little or nothing about. Teachers of social studies may be tempted to tell students that th
EDITORIAL: It’s all about choice
We don’t know of any public school in all of Queens that offers courses in Chinese, Korean or Japanese. This is remarkable when one considers the fact that more then 3 billion people live in mainland China and that economists predict that the Pacifi
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