Education Reporting in NYC
Teachers at a Brooklyn 6th through 12th grade school believe students lack the skill, not the will to behave. A new approach to discipline brought its suspension rate down from 23 to 2 percent in 4 years.
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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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Kiasia Truluck recalled the profound impact Brooklyn’s Beginning with Children Charter School had on her professional life. One of the city’s first charter schools is scheduled to close by the end of the year.
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When the Harlem Children’s Zone opened a charter school in a housing project, it set out to raise test scores. While grades haven’t improved dramatically, the school has helped to create a community and is slowly changing the culture of the neighborhood.
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Looping is when teachers stay with the same class of students for more than one year. At Brownsville’s P.S. 446, teachers say it works well for maintaining discipline, and it’s even better for helping them improve as teachers.
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A “Students Not Scanners” movement at Park Slope Collegiate begins with a student-made mural, and a dose of outrage.
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Brooklyn’s unique science-based P-TECH high school builds robots the same way it builds its school, with a big dose of creative innovation.
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Covering Education students speak to middle school students who did not get into their first choice high school for next year. Some heartbreaks, some hope. Read the story in Chalkbeat.org
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Boys still outnumber girls in math and science specialty schools by a wide-margin, despite the city’s programs meant to attract girls. Girls, on the other hand, vastly outnumber boys in arts and culture specialty schools. Why doesn’t this ever change?
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High School advisories help teachers and students forge relationships valuable to success in school, and in life.
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