Inside the Nation’s First Vegetarian Public School
Thursday is always vegetarian, and sometimes vegan, in the cafeteria at Public School 244 in Queens, the nation’s first non-charter public school to serve only vegetarian meals.
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The New Kids: Faces of Young Immigrant Teens
In Brooke Hauser’s The New Kids, immigrant teenagers work to graduate high school at International High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, while struggling to live an ordinary life lacking basic …
Read MoreTeachers and Public Policy
Once, talk about schools and education policy in the U.S. took place in local classrooms and school board meetings. Today, state and federal spending plans set the agenda for district …
Read MoreTeaching as a Second Act
Debates about how best to teach have been around as long as education. The recent development of Common Core learning standards, new changes to standardized testing (and old arguments about …
Read MorePoor Ratings for De Blasio on Education Policies
Last week, Mayor de Blasio received a 49 percent disapproval rating on his handling of public schools, according to a Quinnipiac poll cited by the New York Daily News. The …
Read MoreThe Rise of the All-Digital Classroom
Several companies are set to release school curriculums designed entirely on digital platforms for tablets, replacing all printed materials such as textbooks and worksheets.
Read MoreChanges to the SAT Announced by The College Board
The 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 MoreRavitch Takes Aim at the Marketplace Reformers
Diane 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 MoreNew “GED” Test Harder Than Regents Exam, According to Critics
New 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.
Read MoreRandom Family: The Absence of Love
In one scene in Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family, Jessica decides to get a tattoo on her chest that reads, “Jessica Loves George.” George—known to those in his Bronx community as …
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