At Most High Schools, Fewer Than Half of Graduates Are Ready for College
Most New York City high schools see fewer than half of their students who graduate ready to do college-level work, according to data released on Monday by the city's Department of Education.In 299 of...
View ArticleCity Plans to Move a School and Start a New One in East New York
The city's Department of Education is planning to open two secondary schools next September in East New York, Brooklyn, one of the poorest and lowest performing neighborhoods in the city. Though the...
View ArticleIn Creating Successful Schools, One Size Does Not Fit All
After starting my teaching career in northern Virginia, my then-fiancee won the “who moves” discussion, bringing me to New York in 2005, three years into the Bloomberg/Klein school administration. I...
View ArticleTeacher Effectiveness Study Uses 1990s Data
Good morning. SchoolBook is still reveling in the wonderful WNYC event at the Brooklyn Museum on Sunday to mark the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The event, hosted by WNYC's Brian Lehrer, gave the...
View ArticleTeachers Turn Out in Force at PEP Meeting
Hundred of teachers' union members came out to a Panel for Educational Policy meeting on Wednesday night in a demonstration of their anger toward Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and frustration with his...
View ArticleHuge Turnout Over New Williamsburg Charter School
A public hearing on a proposal to co-locate a new Success Academy charter school with Junior High School 50 John D. Wells in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, drew hundreds of people Thursday night, with both...
View ArticleHigh Schools Scramble to Use Credit Recovery Before Policy Ends
One of the creative accommodations that has developed in this era of data-driven education is about to come to an end, and some city high schools and their students are making a last-ditch effort to...
View ArticleTeens Say Online Shaming is a Familiar But Confusing Issue
At the Academy for Young Writers in East New York, Brooklyn, a 10th grade class spent an hour Tuesday afternoon debating what constitutes sexual cyberbullying. But one thing wasn't up fr debate: the...
View ArticleChallenging School Year Comes to a Close
By midday Wednesday the school year officially will be out for summer. And, while educators say each year has its highs and lows, many concede the 2012-2013 year was especially packed with...
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