KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Flunked, retained, held back.
Whatever you call it, increasing numbers of states are not promoting students who are struggling to...
A dozen Stuyvesant High School students have been suspended for up to 10 days, with another 54 facing possible suspension for up to five days, as the ...
If there's ever a tangible physical reminder about the differences in education quality in a particular locale, it is found on the floors of a school building on West 134th Street in Harlem. Literally on the floors.
Diane John, the mother whose 15-year-old son suffered a beatdown at the hands of a much larger teacher, is seeking criminal charges against the offend...
You often hear the Department of Education brag about our improved graduation rates in NYC. But what good does it do to graduate more students if only a handful of them are prepared for the future?
A Bronx school in New York is under investigation for allegations of credit irregularities that could threaten some students' abilities to graduate th...
The state has hired a different testing company to produce its standardized exams for grades 3 through 8, replacing a firm whose too-easy tests led to...
Cathie Black has experienced what may be her first successful public outing as chancellor.
Yesterday the chancellor went to Albany to convince lawma...
For New York's high school graduates, their diploma could be little more than a piece of paper.
According to data from the state's Department of Educ...
The New York Department of Education released a list of 47 "failing" schools Thursday that could be shut down by the end of this school year, reports ...
The battle over teacher effectiveness data rages on in New York City, where the United Federation of Teachers is currently embroiled in a court battle...
I've received some amazing responses emailed to me directly to my initial entries on the Huffington Post about education and life in Michael Bloomberg's New York.
Gossiping and laughing, they climbed onto the big yellow school bus on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn on Tuesday morning. But the 20 people clambering ab...