Teachers Accused Of Giving Students Answers On State Tests In Exchange For Perks
Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests, reports the New York Daily News. In r...
Teachers at a Brooklyn elementary school are accused of giving their students the answers on standardized tests, reports the New York Daily News. In r...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.24.2012
Thousands of New York City parents said they'd quit their jobs or leave their children home alone if they lost access to childcare and after-school pr...
HuffingtonPost.com | Saki Knafo | Posted 05.21.2012
Some of the poems were about love and some were about clouds, but what really mattered about the P.S. 63 poetry reading on Wednesday night was the tim...
Posted 05.09.2012
The errors on New York's state exams just keep mounting. Foreign language versions of the state math exams administered to third through eighth gra...
Posted 05.03.2012
Mayor Bloomberg revealed his executive budget proposal on Thursday with disappointing news that the city's revenue projects, primarily in the financia...
Posted 05.02.2012
Federal prosecutors say The Princeton Review, a leading test-preparation company, fraudulently claimed "millions of dollars" of federal money for tuto...
John H. Jackson | Posted 05.15.2012
We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.
John Jackson | Posted 04.25.2012
We all know that factors related to poverty can limit learning in a number of ways. It's time to take apply the "no excuses" doctrine to systems reforms.
Posted 04.17.2012
A 30-year old former math teacher surrendered to police and was arrested Monday for allegedly engaging in oral sex with a 16-year old student at River...
Jorge Hage | Posted 04.17.2012
The open government movement is indicative of the pressures imposed on us by the post-recessionary world. Opening up government data sources increases the bang of each taxpayer buck and creates new commercial opportunities for businesses.
Michael Jascz | Posted 04.08.2012
How does a child reach the point that they become a bully? Could the things our caregivers say and do, while well-intentioned, set the stage for bullying behavior to later surface?
Posted 04.04.2012
Griffin Memorial School in Litchfield, N.H. had 91 percent of its elementary students score proficient or better on the state's reading exam last fall...
HuffingtonPost.com | Nate C. Hindman | Posted 04.04.2012
Kane Sarhan first realized there was a gap between college and the real world as an undergraduate working part-time for the owner of a large bar and r...
AP | Posted 04.03.2012
NEW YORK — New York City's Department of Education has decided to drop its list of words to avoid on school assessment tests. Companies that wa...
Posted 03.29.2012
Should the word "divorce" be banned from standardized tests? The "D" word is part of a recently released list of more than 50 words and references ...
Greg Jacobs | Posted 05.29.2012
Going to school in New York lays a foundation that is four years stronger than even the most ambitious college grad could hope for.
AP | LEANNE ITALIE | Posted 05.28.2012
NEW YORK — For some school kids around the country, the odds have been ever (and awesomely!) in their favor as they've scored the ultimate field...
Kevin P. Chavous | Posted 05.27.2012
The model for each student varies on their needs, and parents are encouraged to be active participants in their child's education. This program is determined to be the change in New York City. What's not to love?
The Huffington Post | Laura Hibbard | Posted 03.26.2012
In an effort to eliminate potential "unpleasant emotions" among students, the New York Department of Education has placed a ban on mentions of "birthd...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 03.23.2012
NEW YORK -- Acknowledging school violence nationwide, a federal appeals court on Thursday upheld the suspension of a 10-year-old boy for a crayon draw...
Andrea Gabor | Posted 05.08.2012
A handful of his more experienced colleagues who had observed Baiz, both in the classroom and giving math presentations to the faculty, saw his potential and made a case for keeping him at the school; but Baiz was convinced that his days were numbered.
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Posted 03.02.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report. New York City schools erupted in controversy last week when the school district released i...
Richard Buery | Posted 04.30.2012
The NYPD has just released some startling numbers: five students are arrested on average each day in NYC public schools. In the period covered, 93 percent of those arrested were black or Latino and 75 percent were male.
AP | By TOM HAYS | Posted 02.25.2012
NEW YORK -- Churches won back the right to hold services in the city's public schools when a federal judge issued an injunction Friday against its no-...
The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 04.25.2012
The New York City Department of Education released today a list of individual ratings of thousands of the city's schoolteachers, a move that concludes...
Posted 05.30.2012