My friend Neil posted this article earlier today. Got me thinking. Enough so to post again after a couple of months. The article is about Harvard's popular CS50 course. David J. Malan took over and redesigned the course in 2007 and it's been his ever since. This year, Malan is on sabbatical and the course is being taught by Henry H. Leitner who was one of the instructors prior to Malan's reworking of the course.

Last week my StuyCS family community had a discussion about Zohran Mamdani's plans for gifted education. For people outside of New York, Mamdani is the Democratic candidate for mayor and there was a recent article outlining his plans or rather, his positions on gifted ed - always a hot button topic for Stuy alums. It also turns out to be a hot button topic in education in general in New York.

I saw this release from NYSED the other day. New York State wants to create a standard set of policies and procedures for schools implementing Dual Credit programs. A Dual Credit class is a college class taken by high school students. The high school offering the class does so in partnership with some college or university. A student who passes the class receives both high school and college credit. They in fact, get a transcript from the partner college with the course or courses they've taken.