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The Long Wait for Accessible Schools Just Got Longer

May 15, 2020June 8, 2020 - by Kio Herrera

For the first time in nearly 100 years, New York City public schools were on track to alter their “abysmally low” number of buildings that meet the needs of hundreds of students with physical disabilities. Then came Covid-19.

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Learning to Behave: One School Cuts Suspensions Using Empathy

April 25, 2016March 25, 2020 - by Cassie Giraldo

Teachers at a Brooklyn 6th through 12th grade school believe students lack the skill, not the will to behave. A new approach to discipline brought its suspension rate down from 23 to 2 percent in 4 years.

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Lumosity, Other Brain-Training Products Get Federal Scrutiny

February 12, 2016 - by Jamie Martines

So-called “brain training” programs designed to help boost students’ attention and working memory are coming under scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission, as some claims have outpaced both the initial …

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Big Gender Gap Persists in Arts Schools, and Math and Science Schools. Why?

June 9, 2015June 11, 2015 - by Pola Lem

Boys still outnumber girls in math and science specialty schools by a wide-margin, despite the city’s programs meant to attract girls. Girls, on the other hand, vastly outnumber boys in arts and culture specialty schools. Why doesn’t this ever change?

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When School Fills a Gap Family Left Behind

April 30, 2015May 15, 2015 - by Lou Marillier

Social emotional learning is central at Brooklyn’s Lyons Community School, where suspensions are a very last resort. Intense relationships result between school staff and students.

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Book Review: Building A Better Teacher by Elizabeth Green

April 15, 2015March 25, 2020 - by Pola Lem

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 …

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One Brooklyn School’s Quest to Find an Alternative to Suspensions

April 15, 2015April 25, 2015 - by Arianna Skibell

The DIG at Lyons Community High School is the staff’s latest attempt to provide students in need with a safe space where they can, at the very least, develop stronger social skills and stabilize enough to return to regular classes.

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Ambitious Bronx Teen Ignores Obstacles, ‘Strives for the Skies’

April 10, 2015April 25, 2015 - by Stephanie Ortigoza

The stress of poverty can cause some teens and children to have to grow up too fast, taking on very adult-style responsibilities. Here is one high-flying graduate’s story from DeWitt Clinton High School in the Bronx

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Book Review: There Are No Children Here

April 1, 2015April 11, 2015 - by Stephanie Ortigoza

What began as an article for the Wall Street Journal expanded into a book. In There Are No Children Here, author Alex Kotlowitz told the tale of two African-American boys …

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Alternate method to Regents exams helps English language learners

March 26, 2015March 31, 2015 - by Jennifer Luna

Schools where students present portfolio work instead of take state-wide Regents exams help their immigrant students learn English.

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