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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P-Tech Students Prep for College Courses
Now in its second year, P-Tech was conceived as an innovative six-year program, believed to be the first school in the nation to incorporate high school and college, along with hands-on work connections with IBM. The idea was that students would get the benefit of an advanced curriculum by the time they graduated and come out better prepared than most for the next phase of their education. But administrators at P-Tech quickly realized that while some of the students passing through the blue and grey-tiled halls were ready for those rigorous classes, many others were not.
Read MoreWorld Journalism Prep Students Sing the Blues
Jamming out over his lunch break, a Queens teacher ensures kids get a chance to tap their inner musicians.
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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 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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ACTvF Aims to Avoid Common Post-Founding Principal Struggle
As the Academy for Careers in Television and Film experienced a leadership change in January, the school’s new principal hoped to avoid the dip in performance that plagues many new schools after the departure of their founding leader.
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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
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Learning English when Uzbek is the First Language
Immigrant children from Uzbekistan have flooded into I.S. 62 in Ditmas Park Brooklyn over the last three years.
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.
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