News Briefs
Eleven New York City schools will use a new reading program this school year developed by the Core Knowledge Foundation.
August 25, 2008
New York City should strengthen and better align its K-12 career and technical education to the needs of employers, report says.
August 11, 2008
The foundation for the General Electric Co. is providing a $5 million grant to improve science, technology, engineering, and mathematics instruction in 10 public schools in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood.
July 15, 2008
They were hoping to more closely align teacher-tenure decisions with student test scores, but the mayor of New York City and other proponents of that idea got the opposite: a two-year ban.
April 22, 2008
April 15, 2008
April 15, 2008
Better-qualified educators are being hired to teach in the district’s poorer schools where student test scores are also on the rise, a new study finds.
June 16, 2008
Urban Advantage goes further than most museum-to-school outreach efforts in connecting students’ field trips to science centers directly back to the school curriculum.
June 6, 2008
The single-minded focus on standardized tests has dictated an impoverished curriculum and pushed out other evidence of learning, writes Randi Weingarten.
May 13, 2008
New York City's hiring policy has created a small but financially significant problem among a slew of teachers who have been unable to find work but remain on the payroll, according to a report.
May 5, 2008
