Education Reporting in NYC
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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A once vital industrial hub in New Jersey remakes its school system by building on its strengths, emphasizing “the ensemble, not the prima donna.”
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Imagine you’re given several years of pedagogical study (or several weeks of training, as the case may be). Then you are thrown into a dunk tank, a classroom full of …
Read MoreTeachers and administrators are taking on leading roles in opting students out of standardized tests.
Read MoreDiane Ravitch takes critical aim at American education reform in The Death and Life of the Great American School System (2010), evaluating the effectiveness of standardized testing, choice, and charter …
Read MoreThis week, New York became the first state to opt out of the GED, the most widely used high-school equivalency test in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal. …
Read More“The Hare and the Pineapple,” the story that stumped eighth-grade test takers last month, was changed by test publishers for the New York State Reading Exam. One crucial switch: the …
Read MoreA question on an eighth-grade state test regarding talking pineapples puzzled students and teacher and led to criticism, The New York Daily News reported.
Read MoreA study by the College of Education at the University of Akron found that computers can accurately grade test essays, but New York Times columnist, Michael Winerip, explores how the “e-Rater” can be faulty.
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