A Score Card for Changing Schools
Sixty-two New York City schools are on a path to be closed or otherwise re-shaped this year. Here's a score card to help you keep track of what schools are affected and how.This post lists the 19...
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With Panel Vote, Once-Venerable City Schools Will Close
10:40 a.m. | Updated The names of two dozen New York City public schools, some of them among the oldest educational institutions in the city, are likely to be erased on Thursday night when a city board...
View ArticleA Final Decision for 24 City Schools
Beth FertigA bit before midnight, more than three months after the idea was proposed, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to reconstitute two dozen city schools by closing them, replacing most of...
View ArticleEducators Debate Boundary Between School and Life
WNYCUsing everyday experiences and current events helps students master classroom material, especially if they feel emotionally connected to the issue. That was one take-away from Tuesday's live event...
View ArticleFor 24 Schools Getting New Start, 24 New Names
For nearly 50 years, the large school building on Avenue X in Gravesend, Brooklyn, has been known as John Dewey High School, after the man who has been called "the father of progressive education." The...
View ArticleCity Releases Details of Turnaround Plans
While its plans to improve 24 "turnaround" schools appear to have been thwarted in court, the city's Department of Education has released the details for what it dreamed of doing at each of the...
View ArticleStudents Powered Our School's Recovery
On Monday we returned to our school building, P.S. 317 Waterside Children's Studio School. Our re-opening offers a spot of light -- powered by newly returned electricity and our unbroken hope -- in a...
View ArticleScores Rise Slightly on High School Progress Reports
Slightly more city high schools got A's and B's on their report cards this year, and fewer got D's and Fs. More than 500 public high schools, transfer schools and alternative programs received progress...
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Using Hip Hop to Develop Young Scientists
Hear an excerpt of GZA's interview with SchoolBook, and his thoughts on rapping as a demonstration of intellect.Students from 10 New York City high schools will have the chance to prove both their...
View ArticleHip Hop Battle Crowns a "Science Genius"
A project launched by a professor, the musician known as GZA and the website Rap Genius pushed New York City high school students this year to master science concepts writing their own raps about them....
View ArticleSix More NYC Schools Land on State's 'Out of Time' List
Six schools already identified as struggling were given a new sense of urgency on Tuesday when the New York State Department of Education officially labeled them "out of time," a designation that could...
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