Education Reporting in NYC
Eighth graders need a lot of help navigating the maze of city high school applications. Schools offer wildly different levels of adult guidance. A new study suggests that equity may suffer as a result.
Read More“But let’s face it,” reads the second paragraph of a recent article in The New York Times. “The cost of a college education these days ranges from expensive to obscenely expensive.” …
Read MoreOver 4,700 New York City students are now eligible for giften programs in the city’s public schools after Pearson, the company which writes and scores the tests, admitted it had …
Read MoreAnthony Weiner, the former Queens congressman who resigned after a sexting scandal, has been in the news of late after he declared that he might run for mayor. In a …
Read MoreThere is a growing national trend amongst universities to accept students for the spring rather than the fall term, requiring them to wait six months after graduating from high school, …
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Teachers in the Urban Assembly School for Applied Math and Science in the Bronx help their eighth graders avoid the high-anxiety of applying for high school. It’s a 6 through 12 school.
Read MoreReprising a march they held last fall, parents and community leaders stood outside P.S. 64 Pura Belpre with signs and mock sirens and declared a “state of emergency” in District 9 Thursday evening just before a public hearing about whether the South Bronx school should be phased out.
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New Orleans journalist Sarah Carr considers the big issues of education reform today through the lives and experiences of New Orleans’ kids and educators.
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