in The press
new york daily news
Brooklyn H.S. reaps 500 lbs of organic produce each week from on-site vegetable garden.
It's harvest time in East Flatbush. Back in February, the front yard at the High School for Public Service was mostly barren, with soggy grass and just a few trees. Now, students have transformed it into a 10,000-square-foot vegetable farm that yields 500 pounds of organic produce each week.
the chief
Ben Shuldiner, the Principal of the High School for Public Service, was practically born into working for the city. His father, Joseph Shuldiner, was the General Manager of the Housing Authority; his mother taught at Washington Irving High School for many years.
But even that pedigree can't fully account for his startling achievement, becoming the youngest Principal in the city, and probably the nation, at the age of 26 when he opened the 400-student school in Crown Heights, Brooklyn in 2003…
the christian science monitor
“You really should get a coat rack," Ira Shankman playfully tells Benjamin Shuldiner, as he drapes his long dark overcoat across his lap. Mr. Shankman, a retired principal, has stopped by to see his protégé, the 26-year-old principal of Brooklyn's brand-new High School for Public Service.
The suggestion is as close as Shankman gets to criticizing Mr. Shuldiner, one of five principals Shankman mentors for New Visions for Public Schools…
pbs: Medical stories
Living a Full Life with a Royal Disease.
Although the segment is about hemophilia in general, it focuses in particular on hemophilia B. Much of the piece shares the personal life journey of our member Benjamin Shuldiner. Ben is well known in our community. A Harvard-trained educator who became the youngest high school principal in the U.S. when he founded New York City’s High School for Public Service in 2002, Ben has inspired countless young people to never let a medical condition stop them from living their fullest lives.
newsday
A Principal And His Principles / Ben Shuldiner is still in his 20s, but his groundbreaking vision is a high school that teaches students the importance of public service
If much is made of 26-year-old Benjamin Shuldiner's rise to become the youngest high school principal in New York State and, quite possibly, the nation, it is because the naive media have, yet again, missed the larger story…
factor nine news
At 41, one can say that Benjamin Shuldiner has earned his titles of principal, professor, educator, and ultimately an innovator and humanitarian. He is past president of the Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (ASCD), a distinguished lecturer of Education Leadership at Hunter College, was an adjunct lecturer at Baruch College, School of Public Affairs, and was the founder and principal of the High School for Public Service in Brooklyn. This Harvard University graduate was raised in New York and later lived in Los Angeles, California prior to relocating to Brooklyn. In 2005, he was the recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Award for Public Service for an Individual 35 Years of Age and Under. …