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Hartwick College Professor of Business Administration and Accounting, Stephen Kolenda has been selected as a Mellon Fellow and will accompany several other Asian Studies faculty in a study tour of India this June and July. Titled "India: Religion, Globalization, and the Environment in the 21st Century" and funded primarily by the Mellon Foundation, the 2014 India Seminar is part of the A

The New York State grades 3-8 testing in Math and English Language Arts will begin on April 1st. In response to parents' concerns regarding high-stakes standardized testing, the Oneonta Area for Public Education and Alliance for Reclaiming Education will co-host a free screening of the acclaimed documentary “Standardized” on March 15 at SUNY Oneonta's Hunt Union in the Red Dragon Theater at 2:30 p

SUNY Delhi is making it easier for prospective students and visitors to see what the campus looks like without traveling to Delaware County. A new on-line virtual tour is available that will give viewers 17 stops and additional photos and videos that the college hopes will give viewers a comprehensive snapshot of the campus...

Advocates and lawmakers say a tour of school districts across the state shows New York is failing to adequately fund public education. The Alliance for Quality Education and Campaign for Fiscal Equity toured 14 school districts. They say the state is failing to provide the "sound, basic education" required by a 2006 court ruling in a lawsuit over funding New York City's schools... Read M

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — Two education advocacy groups say they're gathering evidence from school districts across New York with an eye toward suing the state over school funding.

CORTLAND, N.Y. (AP) — SUNY Cortland has received a $1 million gift bequeathed by a lifelong teacher in central New York. The Syracuse Post-Standard says Esther King Hawthorne died in May 2013. The resident of Clay was 95. Hawthorne taught in public schools in Ithaca, Cooperstown, Lyons and North Syracuse before spending 25 years in Syracuse...

SUNY Oneonta senior Jill Massey will sing Johannes Brahms' choral masterwork as a chorister with the Philharmonia Chorus on Sunday, Feb. 23, at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Massey, a music major from Bloomville and a 2010 graduate of South Kortright Central School, submitted a video audition in December after being encouraged by Associate Professor of Music Timothy Newton, who will also be s

The National Association of Home Builders has honored the State University of New York at Delhi. They're giving the school a $100,000 grant to be used to set up a residential construction program. The current construction courses focus on commercial and industrial construction...

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has announced a new plan to provide college classes in some of the state's prisons. The governor says studies have shown that a college education for prisoners reduces their chances of winding up back behind bars again, saving tax dollars in the long term...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — New York education officials are planning to give high school students more time to meet the new Common Core learning standards. A Board of Regents work group on Monday recommended making the class of 2022, not the class of 2017, the first group required to pass Common Core-aligned English and math exams at what are considered "college- and career-ready levels... Read Mor