Education Reporting in NYC
New York State United Teachers, the state’s largest teachers union, launched a campaign against what it calls “obsessive” standardized testing in New York schools, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard. It placed …
Read MoreIn this article in The Atlantic, Emily Richmond discusses the effect timed math tests have on the gender gap in students’ scores. Research shows that males respond better to competitive …
Read MoreLast week, Chicago Public Schools announced a plan to close 53 elementary schools and one high school program. This afternoon, hundreds of people (a city official estimated up to 2,000 …
Read MoreThe Texas House voted 145-2 yesterday to reduce high-stakes testing, statesman.com reports. House Bill 5 won preliminary passage after a daylong debate, which sees the number of end-of-course exams needed for …
Read MoreBooks about bullying are flooding bookstores and libraries, the New York Times reports. This trend reflects increasing awareness about the problem, with the White House holding its first conference on bullying …
Read MoreMicah Lasher, who helped to launch education advocacy organization StudentsFirstNY, announced on Monday that he was leaving his position as the group’s executive director to become state Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s …
Read MoreAt last night’s Panel for Education Policy meeting and vote on 53 proposals – a mix of phase-outs, closings and co-locations at NYC Public Schools – division among the panel members was clear.
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Students at Manhattan International High School hail from 57 different countries. In the peer tutoring elective, freshmen and sophomores are paired with seniors from similar backgrounds so that the students can relate better to each other as they navigate English, their schoolwork, and New York City.
Read MoreReuters put out an article last Friday about how many of America’s 6,000 charter schools are excluding students they don’t want, for instance by setting grueling admissions processes and requiring …
Read MoreNew York City’s main union for school bus drivers ended its monthlong strike on Friday, the New York Times reported, despite Mayor Bloomberg’s administration refusing to give in to the …
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