Education Reporting in NYC
Because of budget cuts, several city schools have replaced foreign language teachers with Rosetta Stone software. But even the head of Rosetta Stone says the software alone can’t replace live instruction in schools.
Read MoreSarah Garland’s “Divided We Fail” tells the story of how the African-American community in Louisville, Kentucky challenged and defeated the system of desegregation in pubic schools.
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Dan Pettrota is a math teacher at World Journalism Prep, who stepped down from the Broadway stage to enter the classroom through the New York City Teaching Fellows.
Read MoreSeveral companies are set to release school curriculums designed entirely on digital platforms for tablets, replacing all printed materials such as textbooks and worksheets.
Read MoreThe College Board has announced fundamental changes to the SAT, slated for the spring of 2016, on what’s tested, how it’s scored and how students can prepare.
Read More“Education cannot be improved by bribing teachers!” This is the slogan on Beth Glazer-Schettino’s petition on change.org, the popular website that allows users to promote their movements for social change. …
Read MoreFor many Mexican-American students growing up under the Jim Crow laws of the American Southwest in the 1950s, the question of what public school they would attend had little to …
Read MoreNew York State implemented a more rigorous high school equivalency exam to replace the General Educational Development Test (GED), which will gradually increase in difficulty until it is fully aligned to the Common Core by 2017.
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