Author: Nell Gluckman
“No” To Testing: Boycotts and Alternatives
Standardized testing was a hot-button issue this year, especially as tests grew longer as new Common Core standards are implemented. Some parents and educators are against the time test preparation …
Read More “No” to Testing: More and More City Parents Boycott Standardized Tests
Longer tests and more of them prompted a growing number of New York City parents and beyond this April to tell their children not to take them.
Read More
Uncertainty about the Future at a Chinatown Day Care Center
Chung Pak Day Care Center is waiting to hear whether it will get enough money to stay open
Read MoreParents say no to standardized testing for their children
New York City parents announced today their children will opt out of the statewide standardized tests to be administered starting tomorrow. Parents say they are protesting excessive testing that is …
Read MoreAn NYPD program to stem violence has cops investing personally in teenagers
In a new NYPD program, officers make house calls, schools visits and monitor facebook pages of teenagers, the New York Times reports. The program, inspired by Operation Ceasefire, is meant …
Read MoreReactions to Atlanta school cheating scandal
This week 35 of Atlanta’s public school educators, including the renowned former superintendent Beverly Hall, were indicted for tampering with students’ scores in standardized tests. In the wake of the …
Read More
Caught Between Two Worlds, an Uzbek Student Finds Her Own Path
Munisa Habibova, 12, has spent half her life in the U.S., but she still feels the pull of her early years in Uzbekistan
Read MoreIn Enfield, CT school board votes to put armed guards in elementary schools
In the wake of a mass shooting at Sandyhook Elementary School, the school board of a Connecticut town ruled in a 5-4 vote to put armed guards in elementary schools, …
Read MorePolitical division as PEP shutters more schools
At 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.
Read More