Based on my own experience as a New York City public school teacher, I am a strong advocate of tenure.

I've heard government officials and heads of foundations tell me that dealing with young African Americans and Latinos without a high school diploma and low reading and math skills was simply too difficult.

Here's a poem for New Yorkers on this snowy day.

New York City desperately needs other elected officials, its media, the unions, and a mass movement of teachers and students to resist what is happening.

In a speech Malcolm X asked rhetorically, "What do Racists call a black with a PhD?," to which he answered, "Nigger!" That was America 45 years ag...

NEW YORK — A teacher at a New York City public school has been charged with turning his fourth-grade classroom into a fighting ring. Joseph Gullo...

This is an open letter to all the students who are fighting back against the unjust and ill-conceived policies of the Bloomberg/Klein machine that misgoverns New York schools.

Howard Zinn maintained that the people's voice would and must be heard. At the city's education policy hearing, no one listened.

On Thursday a group of about 300 teachers, students, parents, and supporters demonstrated in front of Mayor Bloomberg's home to protest his decision to close 20 public schools.