In Photos: Students “Not Suspects” Paint in Protest
Students at Park Slope Collegiate, a small 6-12 public school in Brooklyn, have been working for the last year to bring a new mural to their school walls. This …
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Brownsville Youth Court and the Teens Who Run it
Brownsville is often called the highest crime neighborhood in New York City. But one youth justice program is having a positive effect on the teens that come through it and those that run it.
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“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.
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Fit Kids: Working Out with Parkour at a Brooklyn Charter
Parkour, a young and trendy fitness discipline, is brought to the classroom at Williamsburg Collegiate Charter School.
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Digital Literacy: New Director at DOE Emphasizes Greater Social Media Use in Classroom
Lisa Nielsen is New York City’s first director of digital literacy and citizenship. She says her job is to help teachers and students become web-savvy.
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Tweeting, Instagramming and YouTubing in Class
With smart phones, MacBook Pros and iPad’s abound, take a look at how a group of tech-savvy students at a private Upper West Side school are tweeting, posting and instagramming their way through class.
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Blended Learning: The Digital Blend
Blended learning, a curriculum combining both digital and traditional learning techniques within the classroom is a concept that is being slowly introduced to schools across the city like Pathways in Technology, also known as P-Tech.
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Social Media: Tweeting and Learning in the Classroom
Educators see social media as an important tool to aid learning in the classroom, but there is no consensus on how best to teach it.
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Jamming out over his lunch break, a Queens teacher ensures kids get a chance to tap their inner musicians.
Read MoreDREAM: Prepping for Stuyvesant and Defying the Odds
Bronx middle schoolers face a tougher challenge than most when it comes to entering the city’s elite high schools. A weekend test prep program tries to change those odds.
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