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This is a fascinating video of the flow pattern of the lower Hudson River. This video was taken during the winter of 2018 and the floating ice allows for fairly easy viewing of the surface level currents of the lower Hudson. The 34 second time lapse video covers approximately 5 hours of actual time and was recorded around January 10, 2018.  The lower Hudson is actually a tidal estuary, with tidal influence extending as far as the Federal Dam in Troy . There are about two high tides and two low tides per day. As the tide rises, the tidal current moves northward, taking enough time that part of the river can be at high tide while another part can be at the bottom of its low tide. Strong tides make parts of New York Harbor difficult and dangerous to navigate. During the winter, ice floes may drift south or north, depending upon the tides. The  Mahican  name of the river represents its partially estuarine nature: muh-he-kun-ne-tuk means "the river that flows both ways." Due to t

Active Shooter Drill- Hoboken High School (May 23, 2018) On Wednesday, May 23, the Hoboken Police Department, in partnership with The Hoboken Board of Education, conducted a school safety drill at Hoboken High School. This was a training exercise for first responders, school staff, and students. Various public safety resources were utilized during the drill.  Some of the drill was reported on by WNBC-New York: The role of active shooter drills and the impact they have on children is becoming an area of research over the past few years. This from a recent article in The Atlantic Monthly --- Of course, general lockdown and disaster drills have a long history; a generation of Americans came of age hiding under desks from nuclear bombs. While the idea of such a maneuver protecting a person from a bomb blast or nuclear fallout became fodder for jokes, the drills themselves had insidious effects on kids’ senses of safety. Some teachers reported that students’ artwork changed to featu

Proposed Flood Wall Along Observer Highway to Limit Flood Impact (2018) It appears that the growing concern over institutional and systemic racism in the Hoboken School District may be more substantial than some members of the district would like to admit or confront. Regardless, it is clear that issues of segregation initially heard in Maplewood, echoed in Hoboken are now openly discussed across the State of New Jersey as a recently filed lawsuit makes claim. There appears to be little doubt that Hoboken will play at least some sort of role in the coming litigation. This "little story" that began in Hoboken a few months ago at Board of Education meetings is now becoming state and national news as this story has gotten picked up by major media outlets. -Dr. Petrosino TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by a civil rights coalition claims racial segregation in New Jersey schools persists more than six decades after the Supreme Court ruled the practice unconstitutional. The La

There are a number of parents of children of color in the Hoboken Public Schools who have expressed various degrees of frustration, displeasure, and/or outrage concerning claims of institutional and systemic racism in the Hoboken Pubic Schools. On April 26, 2018 The Black Parents Workshop, Inc. announced the establishment of a Hudson County Affiliate – the South Hudson (SoHUD) Black Parents Workshop that will focus on school districts in Hoboken, Jersey City and Bayonne, New Jersey .  On May 17, 2018, the 64th anniversary of the Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas a planned lawsuit will be filed in Trenton, NJ on behalf of the plaintiffs in the planned school desegregation lawsuit. This issue is gaining increased attention statewide as well as by local media outlets especially after Maplewood/South Orange agreed to a $127 million remediation plan for the segregation occurring in their schools ( Full story CLICK HERE ). The lawsuit against the district earlier this year, c

This paper investigates an in-service teacher and her student’s abilities to utilize, implement, and enact a participatory agent-based modeling program, developed as part of the group-based cloud computing (GbCC) for STEM Education Project funded by the National Science Foundation. In this first cycle of design-based implementation research with an in-service teacher and her 300 students, we examine student participatory learning and teacher experience. By implementing models with teachers, we intend to 1) improve iteratively the GbCC learning technologies and 2) develop more informed and aligned pedagogies for teaching in socially mediated and generative learning environments. Petrosino, A. J., Sherard, M. K., Harron, J. R., & Stroup, W. M. (2018). Using collaborative agent-based computer modeling to explore tri-trophic cascades with elementary school science students. Creative Education, 9(4), 615-624. doi:10.4236/ce.2018.94043   Petrosino et al. (2018) by Anthony Petrosino on

The Black Parents Workshop is a group of parents and community organizers whose primary purpose is to advance educational equity in public schools. They work to represent the voices of Black parents and to hold educators and administrators accountable for serving Black children. They work to ensure that Black children have access to the tools necessary to advance their educational or career interests. You can read more about the organization by clicking HERE . On April 26, 2018 the Black Parents Workshop published the following press release that should be of interest to parents and community members of southern Hudson County, New Jersey: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   April 26, 2018   Black Parents Workshop Network Expands into Hudson County South Hudson (SoHUD) Black Parents Workshop Affiliate Announced    (Maplewood, NJ) – The Black Parents Workshop, Inc. has announced the establishment of a Hudson County Affiliate – the South Hudson (SoHUD) Black Parents Workshop that will focus on sc