Education Reporting in NYC
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.
Read More
Schools where students present portfolio work instead of take state-wide Regents exams help their immigrant students learn English.
Read MoreMerit 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 …
Read More
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.
Read More
Munisa Habibova, 12, has spent half her life in the U.S., but she still feels the pull of her early years in Uzbekistan
Read MoreOP-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.
Read MoreOP-ED: Growing evidence points to armed guards as the solution to violence in schools.
Read MoreCommunity 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.
Read More
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.
Read MoreApple 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 …
Read More