New York City Schools

Chronic Absenteeism Hurts Millions Of Students

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 05.17.2012

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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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The Worst 8th Grade Math Teacher In New York City

| Aaron Pallas | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, New York State Exams, Math Teachers, Video, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Data Reports, English Language Arts, New York Teacher Evaluations, Carolyn Abbott, New York City Teacher Evaluations, Teachers, Education News

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...

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Bloomberg: CityTime $500 Million Settlement Can't Fill Gap In Budget

Posted 05.03.2012

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Mayor Bloomberg revealed his executive budget proposal on Thursday with disappointing news that the city's revenue projects, primarily in the financia...

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Major Test Prep Company Fraudulently Claimed Millions In Federal Tutoring Funds

Posted 05.02.2012

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Federal prosecutors say The Princeton Review, a leading test-preparation company, fraudulently claimed "millions of dollars" of federal money for tuto...

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Question About a Sleeveless Pineapple Raises Criticism for Standardized Tests

Uloop | Posted 05.01.2012

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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"nonsense author" Daniel Pinkwater, is a parody of the tortoise and the hare story, in which the tortoise has been replaced by a pineapple.

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'Pervy Teachers' Accused Of Sexual Misconduct With Students Can't Get Fired

Posted 04.06.2012

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Sixteen teachers accused of various forms of sexual misconduct are still teaching in New York City schools, according to a New York Education Departme...

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An Idea Whose Time Has Come: Moving From Pilots to Policy

Richard Buery | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Child Poverty, Education, Poverty, The Children's Aid Society, New York City Poverty, Achievement Gap, Education News

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.

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At a Loss for Words -- and All the Ideas That Go With Them

Michael Zimmerman, Ph.D. | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Evolution, Dinosaurs, Dennis Walcott, Censorship, New York City Schools, Education News

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.

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New York City Schools Revokes Testing Word Ban

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

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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...

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What Value Is Added by Publicly Shaming Teachers?

Gregory Michie | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Linda Darling-Hammond, Education Reform, Chicago Public Schools, Value Added Teacher Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, Education News

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.

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Calling It a Choice Doesn't Make It One

Elissa Stein | Posted 05.04.2012

Read More: New York High School Admissions, New York City Schools, NYC Specialized High Schools, High School Choice, High School Admissions, New York City High Schools, Education News

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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How New York City’s Value-Added Model Compares To What Other Districts, States Are Doing

| Sarah Butrymowicz and Sarah Garland | Posted 03.02.2012

Read More: New York City Schools, Teacher Effectiveness, New York Teacher Ratings, Value-Added Models, Hechinger Report, Value-Added Analysis, Value-Added Teacher Ratings, New York Schools, Teacher Ratings, New York, Video, Education News

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...

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New York Publicly Releases Individual Teacher Ratings Amid Controversy

The Huffington Post | Emmeline Zhao | Posted 04.25.2012

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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...

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90 Percent Of Arrested Students Are Black Or Latino

Posted 02.23.2012

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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...

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Court: Only 1 Church Can Use NYC Public Schools, For Now

AP | By JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 02.19.2012

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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...

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Judge Permits Church To Meet At New York Public School

AP | LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 04.17.2012

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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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Teacher Had Students Make Cards For Inmate Boyfriend: Report

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 02.16.2012

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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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Students In Small Public High Schools More Likely To Graduate

| Sarah Garland | Posted 03.27.2012

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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 ...

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Brooklyn Junior High School Suspended 32 Kids For Sexting, Most In NYC

Posted 12.19.2011

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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...

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Boy Dies After Choking On Meatballs In School

AP | Posted 12.18.2011

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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 ...

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City Schools See Significant Decrease In Childhood Obesity

Posted 02.14.2012

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Instances of childhood obesity has significantly decreased among New York City public schools over the last five years, though one in five elementary ...

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Should Churches Be Permitted To Worship On Public School Premises?

Michele Somerville | Posted 02.13.2012

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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.

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Toxic Classrooms: Will NYC Schools Get Rid Of PCBs?

HuffingtonPost.com | Claire Gordon | Posted 12.13.2011

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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...

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Student Graduation Threatened In School Course Credit Scandal

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...

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94 Percent Of Arrested Students Are Black Or Latino

Posted 12.01.2011

Read More: New York City Schools, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Dennis Walcott, Nypd, Ny News, New York News, New York City Student Arrests, New York Civil Liberties Union, New York Education, New York News

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 ...

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