"Whether caused by poor construction or natural catastrophes, school collapses invariably have disastrous effects on children," said Cream Wright, UNICEF Global Chief of Education.
Denise Gelberg Ithaca, N.Y., July 6, 2009 To the Editor: True, the nation's dropout problem is a catastrophe, but charter schools aren't the only answer.
In the instance of a terrorist attack or other catastrophe, how would your school respond?
Telling his girl to drive a little slower, Smith's lyrics aren't the clearest at times: "Battle me that's your fatality, actually I'm a catastrophe / Go to your school and they ask for me / I'm in your class making cash and we fruity like passion is burning like ashes".
With a few cases of confusion, but no catastrophes, a newly overhauled New York City school system welcomed its students back.
That's a hefty sum — by comparison, the Education Department's entire discretionary budget for the year was $59 billion — and it will save America's schools from the catastrophe that they were facing.
It does seem a little petty of me to be so concerned about a word and its meaning when so many catastrophes are swirling around our school and the lives of our students.
In practice, this might mean even less money for schools due to a funding catastrophe caused by another of Clegg's pet schemes: universal school meals.
What was surprising, however, was the new "meme" that took hold in cyberspace: this economic catastrophe was the fault of law schools and law professors.
The opening of what Schools Chancellor Joel I. Klein calls "the new New York City school system" seemed to pass without catastrophe.
