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“He Needs School”: Students with disabilities cut off from services and support in quarantine

May 16, 2020July 28, 2020 - by Elize Manoukian

Many mandated services to the city’s 200,000 children with disabilities of these services cannot be provided online. Parents worry their special needs children are not receiving the free and appropriate education required by law.

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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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Opinion

Yes to Gov. Cuomo’s Merit Pay Policy

March 5, 2014March 26, 2020 - by Madeleine Cummings

Merit pay for teachers makes intuitive sense. By rewarding the best with cash bonuses, the theory goes, teachers will respond by working harder. Students will, in turn, perform better. Bright …

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New York Times Says Honeymoon is Over for Mayor de Blasio over Schools, Snowstorm

February 14, 2014February 17, 2014 - by Dartunorro Clark

The New York Times says the honeymoon is over between Mayor de Blasio and New Yorkers after his handling of the several weeks of snowstorms and his decision to keep schools open during Thursday’s blizzard.

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Caught Between Two Worlds, an Uzbek Student Finds Her Own Path

March 30, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Nell Gluckman

Munisa Habibova, 12, has spent half her life in the U.S., but she still feels the pull of her early years in Uzbekistan

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Opinion

Armed School Guards Will Not Make Schools Safer

March 11, 2013April 30, 2013 - by Nell Gluckman

OP-ED: Protecting students from well-armed gunmen who are determined to kill is not as simple as having armed security guards in schools. In fact, armed security guards may do more to harm than good to morale inside the school.

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Armed School Guards Answer to Preventing Gun Violence

March 9, 2013March 11, 2013 - by Mariana Ionova

OP-ED: Growing evidence points to armed guards as the solution to violence in schools.

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At Three Schools, Brief Hearings Air Common Themes

February 27, 2013February 27, 2013 - by Nell Gluckman

Community members from three small schools on the city’s chopping block–Brooklyn’s P.S. 73, East New York’s JHS 13, and Manhattan’s Freedom High– aired their frustrations, their unheralded successes on Feb. 25.

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A Study of the Desegregation of Boston’s Public Schools

February 25, 2013May 7, 2013 - by Nell Gluckman

Anthony Lukas’s epic book Common Ground chronicles the history of Boston from 1968 to 1976, a time when efforts to desegregate the city’s public schools through forced busing brought to the surface deep seated racial tension.

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Corporate Strategy: An Apple for Every Teacher

May 6, 2012May 11, 2012 - by Andrew Parsons

Apple co-founder Steve Jobs once told Wired Magazine said that he probably “spear-headed giving away more computer equipment to schools than anybody else on the planet.” It’s hard to verify …

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