Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students
Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...
Danet Robaina-Cline, an attendance counselor at Chaparral High, considers her school lucky. Like other schools in Las Vegas, a city reeling from th...
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Aaron Pallas
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Posted 05.16.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's A Sociological Eye on Education blog. For 10 months, Carolyn Abbott waited for the other...
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...
Uloop | Posted 05.01.2012
The passage, modified from a fable by self-proclaimed "nonsense author" Daniel Pinkwater, is a parody of the tortoise and the hare story, in which the tortoise has been replaced by a pineapple.
Posted 04.06.2012
Sixteen teachers accused of various forms of sexual misconduct are still teaching in New York City schools, according to a New York Education Departme...
Richard Buery | Posted 04.10.2012
On the evening of March 27, one of our community schools located in Washington Heights, a heavily Dominican neighborhood, hosted an event with potential implications for education policy in New York City and across the country.
Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2012
Rarely am I at a loss for words, but in this case, with New York City attempting to remove 50 from my vocabulary, I can't think of anything more to say.
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...
Gregory Michie | Posted 05.07.2012
We've already created a climate where good, hard-working educators feel justifiably discouraged and unjustly maligned. The irresponsible use of value-added models will only make things worse.
Elissa Stein | Posted 05.04.2012
Last week tens of thousands of New York City public school students received high school offer letters. For almost half of them, dreams came true. But too many others were disappointed, not to mention devastated by the results.
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Sarah Butrymowicz and Sarah Garland
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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...
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 02.23.2012
An average of 5 students were arrested each day in New York City schools during the last three months of 2011, new NYPD data reveals. And of those stu...
AP | By JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 02.19.2012
NEW YORK -- An appeals court added another twist Friday to the battle over worship services in New York City schools when it sharply narrowed the scop...
AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 04.17.2012
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...
The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.16.2012
A New York teacher is under fire after she forced her fifth-graders to make holiday cards for her incarcerated boyfriend -- who's been accused of poss...
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Sarah Garland
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Posted 03.27.2012
This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. You might have forgotten about the small schools movement amid all the ...
Posted 12.19.2011
A junior high school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn suspended 32 students last year, the most in any New York City school, for sending sexually suggestive m...
AP | Posted 12.18.2011
NEW YORK -- Family members and a witness say a New York City fourth grader choked on meatballs during lunch earlier this month while school cafeteria ...
Posted 02.14.2012
Instances of childhood obesity has significantly decreased among New York City public schools over the last five years, though one in five elementary ...
Michele Somerville | Posted 02.13.2012
Although we can (and must) draw lines to ensure that schools do not teach religion, endorse religion, permit collective prayer while school is in session, we can no more kick prayer out of schools than we can evict God.
HuffingtonPost.com | Claire Gordon | Posted 12.13.2011
At the end of the 2010-2011 school year, Michelle Chapman's 10-year-old daughter started complaining about headaches and fatigue. Her symptoms stopped...
Posted 02.01.2012
A Bronx school in New York is under investigation for allegations of credit irregularities that could threaten some students' abilities to graduate th...
Posted 12.01.2011
An average of 1 New York City student is arrested by the NYPD every day, according to a new report. And of those arrested, 88 percent are male and 94 ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012