New York City Public Schools

Stop Hating, Start Teaching

Lori Ungemah | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: New York City Public Schools, High School, Standardized Testing, Teacher Hating, Literacy, High School Graduation Requirements, High School Graduation Rates, Education News

Let me explain a few things to those of you, in higher education and in general, who believe high school teachers don't teach.

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The Little Black Box That Could: This Is How We Do It New York City Public School Style

Donna Fish | Posted 04.12.2012

Read More: Fostering Creativity, The Arts in Education, New York City Public Schools, Spring Awakening, Beacon Dramatic Arts Department Spring Awakening, Spring Awakening Beacon, Beacon Dramatic Arts Department, New York News

In two weeks, Beacon Dramatic Arts Department will present the first high school production of the recent hit Broadway show Spring Awakening. I sat down to interview the woman chiefly responsible for this production.

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Great Principals: Leaders, Learners, Innovators

Matthew Resnick | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: High-School-Principals, New York City Public Schools, Teacher Evaluations, School Principals, Education Reform, Teen News

The main job of a principal is to ensure that the students in their school are receiving an effective education, and they must do whatever it takes to ensure that that happens -- no excuses.

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Affirmative Action for School Reformers?

Dean Baker | Posted 05.12.2012

Read More: Michelle Rhee, School Reform, Public Schools, Teachers, Chicago Public Schools, New York City Public Schools, Education News

The rich and powerful have lined up firmly on the side of school reform, which is defined as a system where teachers lack job security and standardized testing becomes all-important.

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Judge OKs Church's Use Of School Space In The Bronx

AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 02.29.2012

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Video, Bronx School Church, Bronx Household of Faith, Bv-Politics, Separation of Church and State, Religion News

NEW YORK -- A federal appeals court on Wednesday rejected an attempt by New York City to keep churches out of its public schools while a judge decides...

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Evaluating the Evaluations

Matthew Resnick | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Teacher Evaluations, New York City Public Schools, High School News

New York State needs effective teachers to teach the future generations -- and an effective system to support teachers. Education is a field where no corners can be cut.

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Judge Permits Church To Meet At New York Public School

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 04.17.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Public Schools, New York City Public Schools, Church in Public Schools, School Church, Bronx Church in New York Schoolk, New York Schools, Bronx Household of Faith, New York City Board of Education, Bronx Church, Separation of Church and State, Church in New York School, Education News

NEW YORK — A federal judge cleared the way Thursday for a tiny Bronx church to continue meeting for religious services at a New York City public...

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The Global Search for Education: A Look at New York Public Schools

C. M. Rubin | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: New York City Public Schools, C. M. Rubin, Urban Public Schools, Recruiting Teachers, School Zoning, Joel Klein, Teachers College Columbia University, Education Reform, Eric Nadelstern, Global Search for Education, U. S. Public Education, Low Performing Schools, Academic Achievement Gap, Education News

"You can still walk into a kindergarten class in New York City on the first day of school, and simply on the basis of race and how kids are dressed, predict with frightening accuracy which kids are likely to graduate 13 years later."

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POLL: Should High Schools Ban Cellphones?

Posted 01.03.2012

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Yourtake, High School News, Cell Phone Ban, High School News

The City of New York banned cell phones in public schools five years ago. And now, when nearly every teen has a cell phone and schools enforce the ban...

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Don't Be Spooked By Sex Education

Haydee Morales | Posted 01.02.2012

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, Halloween, Motherhood, Teen Sex, Parenting, Planned Parenthood, Moms, Sex Education, New York City, Parenting Advice, Teenagers, New York News

Halloween has passed, and with it all of the goblins, and ghosts and other things intended to leave us frightened. Or have they?

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Have the Bush-Obama School Reforms Helped Our Inner-Cities?

Marc Epstein | Posted 11.22.2011

Read More: Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Arne Duncan, New York Schools, New York City Public Schools, Schools Reform, Obama Education, Education Policy, No Child Left Behind, Achievement Gap, Bush Education, Education Reform, Racial Achievement Gap, Nclb, Education News

In a few short months NCLB will have been part of the public policy landscape for 10 years. When it's birthday rolls around in January what should we celebrate?

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Discourse on Intercourse: An Opportunity to Teach Sex Education the Right Way

Lily Gellman | Posted 12.03.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, New York Civil Liberties Union, Sex Education, High School News

Imagine a scale from one to 10. One marks abstinence-only-until-heterosexual-marriage education, while 10 represents safer sex-positive, LGBTQ-inclusive education. My high school's curriculum up until this year falls somewhere in the scale's middle, but tips precariously toward its lower end.

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There Are No Black Children Here

Rebecca Carroll | Posted 11.06.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, New York Public Schools, New York Schools, Nyc Public Schools, New York School Zones, NYC Schools, Private School Admission, New York Private School Admissions, New York City Private Schools, NYC Education, Montclair N.J., Montclair New Jersey, Advertising, Public Schools, Bv-Parenting, Black Voices News

Like most New Yorkers, my husband and I knew that finding an appropriate school for our son was not going to be a cakewalk. Negotiating the New York City school system is practically a rite of passage for parents who live here. But while most parents seek a school that satisfies traditional criteria such as high test scores and general academic achievement, I had an additional standard in mind as we explored nearly two dozen schools: I wanted to find a school for my son where he would would have peers and mentors who are black.

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NYC Schools Food Supplier Moves Jobs From Brooklyn To Scranton

HuffingtonPost.com | Dave Jamieson | Posted 10.24.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Video, Nyc, New York City Manufacturing, Maramount Corp, Manufacturing, New York City Food, New York City Public School Foods, Maramount, New York City, Business News

A scrum of protesters and factory workers set to lose their jobs descended on a Brooklyn factory Wednesday, urging Maramont Corporation, which has sup...

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Court Decision Allows New York City To Proceed With School Closures

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 09.21.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Education News, New York City Schools, Uft Closure Lawsuit, Education, Uft Lawsuit, Charter Schools, Obama Education Policy, Co Location, Injunction, Lawsuits, Michael Mulgrew, Naacp, School Closure, Education News

NEW YORK -- A New York judge's Thursday night decision clears the way for the New York City Department of Education to proceed with its plan to close ...

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Everything I Ever Needed to Know about Education I Learned from a Public School Teacher

Deborah Levine | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, New York City Public School, Education, Public Education, Education News

My children's teachers are exceptional, but they're not the exception. As a student pursuing a degree in education myself, I've discovered that there are extraordinary teachers in public schools all across the city.

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'Good Schools Have the Arts' -- Isn't That What We Want for All Kids?

Richard Kessler | Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Equity, Music Education, Dance Education, Music, Art Education, Arts Education, New York City Public Schools, Michael Hinojosa, Education Reform, Education News

Change will require the type of leadership that makes it known that schools without the arts cannot be good schools and will no longer be accepted.

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SHSAT Is the Golden Ticket

Alex Mallory | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, Test-Prep, Stuyvesant High School, Tutor, Tutoring, Shsat, College News

For many students in New York City, the less well-known high school exam, the SHSAT, may be the most important standardized test of their academic careers.

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Rock Star Superintendents: Are They Overpaid?

Justin Snider | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Paul Vallas, Chris Christie, Superintendents, Michael Bloomberg, Cathie Black, Superintendent Ramon Cortines, Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Andrew Cuomo, Fordham Institute, Shael Polakow-Suransky, Joel Klein, Ron Huberman, Executive Compensation, Superintendent Salaries, Teachers, Education News

They command six-figure salaries. No, we're not talking rock stars, pro athletes or even pro coaches. We're talking school superintendents.

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Progress in New York City Schools Under Chancellor Joel Klein

Whitney Tilson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Education, Marc Epstein, Diane Ravitch, Joel Klein, School Reform, Education Reform, New York City, Education News

Along with Michelle Rhee, former New York City Chancellor Joel Klein is the best known of a new wave of reformers tackling one of our nation's most intractable problems.

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Peace First, Dangling Modifiers Second: How Urban Public Schools Have It All Wrong

Pamela Kripke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Public School Education, Teaching, Youth-Urban-Violence, New York City Public Schools, Education, School Violence, Gang Violence, Pamela Kripke, Education News

In order to fix the schools, the Bloombergs and Blacks need to fix the kids. But this would require a tectonic shift in philosophy, from penal to uplifting, from frenetic to calm, from dictate to reality.

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Breaking Up Big Schools Into Smaller Ones: A Successful Reform Tactic?

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Joel Klein, New York City Public Schools, School Reform, Education Reform, Education News

Chancellor Joel Klein of New York City has implemented a school reform strategy that aims to exchange large, underperforming schools with smaller scho...

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Is the Bloomberg Regime Unraveling?

Alan Singer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Environmental Protection Agency, Al Sharpton, Michael Bloomberg, Epa, Marijuana, New York News

As he prepares for a possible 2012 presidential run, the Bloomberg regime in New York City may be unraveling at the end of 2010. So far his endless su...

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Open Letter to Cathie Black

Brian Gresko | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Public Schools, New York City Teaching Fellows, New York City, New York City Teachers, Cathie Black, New York News

Ms. Black, don't think that you're blazing any trails here. In 2002, to much less fanfare, I also left Hearst Corporation for a job at the New York City Department of Education -- as a teacher.

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Almost Chancellor

Alexander Russo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Joel Klein, Schools Chancellor Cathie Black, Cathie Black Joel Klein, Education News

As of this moment, nobody knows for sure whether Black will make it through this last hurdle, or how she'll do on the job. But if she ends up not getting the job it won't be the first time.

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