Local
Woodcliff Lake Council approves creation of passive park
Pascack Valley Community Life
On Tuesday September 21st 2010, the Woodcliff lake mayor was ecstatic to hear that his proposal to turn an 18th century historic Dutch colonial house into a passive park that would include a scenic walkway along with a toddler park passed through the Woodcliff lake council. The project which will cost 400,000 dollars and is set to break ground by February, will be paid for by the borough’s open space trust fund. The passing of this ordinance ends the years of debate the town had over how to effectively us the historic property.
National
M.I.T. Weighs Charges for Online Lectures
By THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE
Over the past decade, The massachustes institute of technology has been at the forefront in the Open course ware movement, an organization that provides free high quality educational material to anyone interested, but that is likely to change in the coming months as MIT is toing around with the idea of charging for their once free materials in an attempt to increase their declining endowment. MIT’s shrinking endowment, which went from 10.1 billion dollars in 2008 to 7.6 billion, has been a cause for concern for the university so much so that they have created a number of measures to increase their endowment.
Global
Teacher's Day in China a Financial Burden on Parents
Parents of students in china have expressed disdain for National teachers day, a day in which they feel leaves the parents burdened with not only the stress of buying a teacher a gift but alos with the bill. Since the creation of national teachers daym it has become tradition for the students in the class to competer over who purchased the best gift, a prctice which fosters a unfriendly learning enviorment and one that can be mistaken for bribery
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