Education Reporting in NYC
This semester, Wilber’s on a crusade to use provocative themes, and the zombie tie-in, to get more of City-As-School’s notoriously weary readers to pick up a book – and come to class.
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Eva Moskowitz, network founder and CEO, said the decision runs counter to New York state charter law, which she said encourages the weighted lottery for English language learners.
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Nicholas Lemann’s “The Big Test: The Secret of the American Meritocracy,” shows the story of how success on the SAT became equated with more college choice.
Read MoreCanceling school also means nixing other school services, such as free or reduced lunch and after-school programs. How do snow days affect the student experience? Read more at The Hechinger Report.
Read MoreA report released by Advocates for Children, an advocacy organization, found that most disciplinary policies at publicly financed New York City charter schools were not wholly in line with state or …
Read MoreStudents in New York sit down and take the New York State Assessments, but many states were still making decisions on what tests to administer this spring. There’s one state …
Read MoreChalkbeat Colorado dives in to data after schools release immunization numbers. Colorado parents can check find their child’s school or prospective school thanks to a new mandate in Chalkbeat Colorado’s …
Read MoreBeing chronically absent from school could mean a criminal record in Texas, where parents and students as young as 12 can be fined and charged with a misdemeanor. Almost all …
Read MoreA Columbia Law School and African American Policy Forum report has some serious findings. African American girls are 10 times more likely to be punished in school compared to white …
Read MoreAn Al-Jazeera America report reviewed the crime logs of 15 colleges in New York City spanning over four years and found: Discipline was used in 43 percent of reported sexual …
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