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 MoreAge: 14 Middle School: NYC Lab Middle School High School: Stuyvesant High School A typical student in a specialized high school is probably a lot like Emily Zhang — an …
Read MoreValerie Cruz Age: 15 Neighborhood: Far Rockaway High School: Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology On New Year’s Eve in Times Square, Valerie Cruz clutched a cup of …
Read MoreResearchers from the University of Washington believe there are two social factors that are keeping girls away from computer science classes. The first is the perception of who belongs in …
Read MoreCommunity colleges will get a boost from the White House in the form of a $100 million grant to expand workforce training programs. In the administration’s latest initiative, grants will …
Read MoreA new approach to school discipline advocated by the de Blasio administration has seen suspension rates drop throughout the city. But some teachers say the success is masking ongoing discipline …
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The city’s inequality gap was on display this week at two public high school fundraisers. Stuyvesant High School parents intended to raise $80,000; students and teachers at Queens High School for Research, Information and Technology were hoping for $2,000.
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The Queens High School for Information, Research and Technology, a small, struggling school in Far Rockaway, took in a large percentage of the more than 700 Central American refugee children who flooded into the U.S. in the last two years.
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A once vital industrial hub in New Jersey remakes its school system by building on its strengths, emphasizing “the ensemble, not the prima donna.”
Read MoreAfter allegations of misuse of student funds at Marinello Schools of Beauty, the U.S. Department of Education is creating a new unit to investigate similarly fraudulent spending at colleges. The Department …
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