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🌱 A Dangerous Intersection + Tutors Lend A Hand + Yeshiva Education
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Hi all. Carlie Houser here with your fresh copy of the Brooklyn Daily. Keep reading to find out everything you need to know about what's happening in town.
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Here are the top stories in Brooklyn today:
1. Park Slope residents are desperate to change a notoriously dangerous intersection after a woman broke both her legs in a crash this week. For 15 years, Joanna Oltman Smith has been pushing the city to do something to make the intersection at Union Street and Eight Avenue safer for pedestrians—she began her community activism when she couldn't even cross the street with her child in a stroller. According to Crash Mapper, 35 people have been injured in 166 crashes over the last decade at the intersection. On Wednesday, the latest victim was a 31-year-old woman who was left with two broken legs. Despite their pleas, residents have only seen final changes made to the area, and requests for measures as minimal as a traffic cop have been brushed off or denied.
2. Half (yes, half) of NYC students not proficient in reading, and CUNY tutors hope to fix that. After disheartening testing results showed that 50% of NYC students we're behind reading by they time they reached third grade. Aiming to change that stat, a new program is pairing City University of New York (CUNY) students studying education with school children who are struggling to master their literacy skills. At some schools, tutors and their students have been meeting up to three times a week in hopes that an intensive strategy will get kids back on track. This method is back by research, which points to high-dosage as a tried-and-true method of reaching students who are struggling or were derailed by the pandemic.
3. An ultra-Orthodox Brooklyn yeshiva and the city Education Department have developed a basic instruction plan for teaching English, math, social studies, and science—experts say it's so sparse it "could have been written on a napkin." Following the guidelines in this three-page plan, the principal of Yeshiva Mesivta Arugath Habosem in Williamsburg, Joseph Doppelt, has told state officials that over the next few months, the school will develop "curriculum maps" for basic education it can implement by the end of the 2023-2024 school year. The updated curriculum promises to "satisfies learning standards," as the plan reads. However, David Bloomfield, a professor of education law and policy at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center, remains unimpressed. The way he sees it, the short, sparse plan is a circumvention tactic, "just parroting of regulatory language with no substance behind it."
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— Carlie Houser
About me: I'm a recent grad based in Brooklyn, NY. I love to write, run, read, and find new restaurants and venues around the city.
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