Education Reporting in NYC
Community members from three small schools on the city’s chopping block–Brooklyn’s P.S. 73, East New York’s JHS 13, and Manhattan’s Freedom High– aired their frustrations, their unheralded successes on Feb. 25.
Read MoreReprising a march they held last fall, parents and community leaders stood outside P.S. 64 Pura Belpre with signs and mock sirens and declared a “state of emergency” in District 9 Thursday evening just before a public hearing about whether the South Bronx school should be phased out.
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Anthony Lukas’s epic book Common Ground chronicles the history of Boston from 1968 to 1976, a time when efforts to desegregate the city’s public schools through forced busing brought to the surface deep seated racial tension.
Read MoreAn increasing amount of students and teachers are speaking out against standardized testing across the U.S. according to recent media reports. From teachers in Seattle’s Garfield High School, who voted …
Read MoreSchool-Stories.org reporters Carey Reed and Andres Lopez cover the public hearings at M.S. 45 in East Harlem and Sheepshead Bay High School in Brooklyn for GothamSchools.org. These are two schools on the DOE chopping block.
Read MoreA judge has blocked the state from pulling $250 million in funding for city schools by Gov. Cuomo because city officials failed to secure a deal with the teachers’ union …
Read MoreThe MetLife Survey of the American Teacher released for 2012 reports that only 39 percent of teachers in the U.S. are satisfied with their job, according to the Huffington Post. …
Read MoreThe New York Daily News reports that Gov. Cuomo will have the state impose its own teacher evaluation system in city schools if New York City officials and the teacher’s …
Read MoreA federal panel today announced that schools across the country are in crisis and that the reform movement championed by both Democrats and Republicans has failed to improve the state …
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New Orleans journalist Sarah Carr considers the big issues of education reform today through the lives and experiences of New Orleans’ kids and educators.
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