Education Update is a non-profit monthly newspaper

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 published

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 in New York City

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. It focusses on issues related to education and has a circulation of approximately 200,000. The publisher, retired education professor Pola Rosen, began the newspaper at the age of 54, delivering the paper door to door on Manhattan's Upper East Side. The magazine also hosts an annual essay writing competition for New York City school students and sponsors conferences on education policy.

The publication was honored with the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce

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's Best New Business of the Year Award in 1997.

Monthly columnists include New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg

Michael Bloomberg

Michael Rubens Bloomberg is the current Mayor of New York City. With a net worth of $19.5 billion in 2011, he is also the 12th-richest person in the United States...

, School Chancellor Joel Klein

Joel Klein

Joel Irwin Klein was Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, the largest public school system in the United States, serving more than 1.1 million students in more than 1,600 schools...

, NYS Education Committee Chair Assemblyman Steve Sanders

Steve Sanders

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, former New York State First Lady Matilda Cuomo

Mario Cuomo

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, and United Federation of Teachers

United Federation of Teachers

The United Federation of Teachers is the labor union that represents most educators in New York City public schools. , there were about 118,000 in-service educators and 17,000 paraprofessionals in the union, as well as about 54,000 retired members...

 President Randi Weingarten

Randi Weingarten

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. Among those individuals who have conducted exclusive interviews with the paper on education issues are Tony Blair

Tony Blair

Anthony Charles Lynton Blair is a former British Labour Party politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2 May 1997 to 27 June 2007. He was the Member of Parliament for Sedgefield from 1983 to 2007 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1994 to 2007...

, Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou

Maya Angelou is an American author and poet who has been called "America's most visible black female autobiographer" by scholar Joanne M. Braxton. She is best known for her series of six autobiographical volumes, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first and most highly...

, Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela served as President of South Africa from 1994 to 1999, and was the first South African president to be elected in a fully representative democratic election. Before his presidency, Mandela was an anti-apartheid activist, and the leader of Umkhonto we Sizwe, the armed wing...

, Senator Edward Kennedy

Edward Kennedy

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, Laura Bush

Laura Bush

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 and Hillary Clinton.

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As of February 2008

• Editor-in-Chief: Pola Rosen
• Associate Editors: Heather Rosen, Adam Sugerman, Rob Wertheimer
• Assistant Editor: Liza Young
• Editor-at-Large: Steve Bailey

Advisory Council

• Mary Brabeck, Dean, New York University School of Education
• Sheila Evans-Tranumn, Associate Commissioner of Education for New York State
• Charlotte K. Frank, Ph.D., Senior VP, McGraw-Hill
• Joan Freilich, Ph.D., Trustee, Barnard College & College of New Rochelle
• Andrew Gardner, Technology Teacher & Advisor, The School at Columbia University
• Cynthia Greenleaf, Ph.D., Director, Partnerships, Chicago Public Schools
• Augusta S. Kappner, Ph.D., President, Bank St. College
• Bonnie Kaiser, Ph.D., Director, Precollege Program, Rockefeller University
• Harold Koplewicz, M.D., Founder & Director, NYU Child Study Center
• Ernest Logan, Pres., CSA
• Cecilia McCarton, M.D., Dir., The McCarton Center
• Eric Nadelstern, CEO, Empowerment Schools, NYC
• Alfred S. Posamentier, Ph.D., Dean, School of Education, CCNY
• Adam Sugerman, Publisher, Palmiche Press
• Laurie Tisch, Chair, Center for Arts Education

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