Education Reporting in NYC
Central American immigrant teenagers in Queens work overnight at under-the-table factory jobs to help families pay their bills and debts. Somehow the students make it to school the next morning.
Read MoreAt South Brooklyn Community High School, teachers work to help struggling students earn the credits they need to graduate. But students at the transfer school in Red Hook often stumble …
Read MoreWASHINGTON HEIGHTS — Police have stepped up patrols at a local high school after a wild brawl involving a pair of teens wielding a wooden stick left several students injured, authorities said. …
Read MoreNew York City eighth graders and their families are spending up to 5.7 million hours every year navigating a high school admissions process that was in part designed to break …
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Did the redesigned SAT make the grade? SAT critics, test coaches, and college officials speak out.
Read MoreWhen middle schools in a brownstone Brooklyn district with a hyper-competitive admissions process consider prospective students next year, they will no longer be able to factor in how families ranked …
Read MoreNearly one-third of city teachers can’t make vital photocopies for students, and one in five work unpaid overtime every week, according to a survey released Tuesday by a teachers union …
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Some charter schools are rolling back their hours, just as some public schools are adding time to the school day. Research is mixed about whether it makes a difference.
Read MoreSuccess Academy CEO Eva Moskowitz did not approve of the finding — made by an “ethnographer” she hired to study her rapidly expanding charter school network — that some teachers at the …
Read MoreNeighborhood: Hamilton Heights, Manhattan Middle School: M.S. 322 in Inwood, Manhattan High Schools: Manhattan Business Academy (9th Grade), High School for Health Professions and Human Services (10th Grade onwards) It took …
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