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Meropi Kyriacou Honored as TNH Educator of the Year
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
ΑΤΗΕΝS – The assessment tests in Modern Greek and Mathematics, otherwise known as the “Greek PISA” (Programme for International Student Assessment)” will be held on Wednesday. A total of 6,000 students in the 6th grade of primary school and the 3rd grade of high school from 600 schools (300 primary and 300 high schools) in the country will participate.
The exams, according to the education ministry, “aim at a valid and reliable diagnosis of the knowledge, abilities and skills of our students, according to the expected learning outcomes.”
The subjects include the basic knowledge that students must have acquired in elementary and high school and are familiar, the ministry explained.
The purpose of assessment tests is to “improve the education system based on specific data. We will find out what the students have learned, what they have understood well from the textbooks and what is difficult for them. Based on this information, we will proceed to make interventions in matters of both teaching methodology and the curriculum.”
Participation in the exams is mandatory, but the results will be collected anonymously and will not count toward the students’ grades.
NEW YORK – Meropi Kyriacou, the new Principal of The Cathedral School in Manhattan, was honored as The National Herald’s Educator of the Year.
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — More than 100 long-finned pilot whales that beached on the western Australian coast Thursday have returned to sea, while 29 died on the shore, officials said.
BAYSIDE, NY – Daughters of Penelope (DOP) Ilion Chapter 135 continues to keep the light shining bright within.
NEW YORK – Mike Labatos, AHEPA District 6 Lt.
Cretans are known for loving their guns but the island has the dubious record of having the highest rates of suicide in Greece over the last 25 years, averaging 2.
ATHENS - Forgetting the 2010-18 economic and austerity crisis that saw people so desperate they were picking food out of rubbish and supermarket bins, Greeks are among the European countries with the ignominious title of food wasters.