Just in time for this weekend's administration of the SHSAT (specialized high school admissions test) -- and perfectly poised to increase the anxiety of the nearly 30,000 students who'll sit for...

Only a few days after the UFT sued the DOE for infringing on teacher's freedom of speech by forbidding them to wear political buttons on the job, the feds ruled against the union, satisfying...

The NY Times picks up the NCLB threadtoday, with a close study of a solid California school that's shown steady, upward growth -- although not at the rapid rate NCLB and state planners agreed as...

The long-anticipated death of print has two new late-September heralds: First, the imminent demise of the New York Sun, which may fold this week unless a deep-pocketed sponsor, un-scarred by market...

The NY Sun yesterday cited DOE enrollment numbers, concluding that "P.S. 87 on 78th Street would be at 50% capacity if only neighborhood students zoned for the school attended." The way that this...

Who doesn't want more arts education for our city's students? Parents as Arts Partners, via the Center for Arts Education, brings the creative process to thousands of kids and families every year....

Citing competition as the key to success, Mayor Bloomberg says that pressure from charter schools force traditional public schools to improve. But advocates like Leonie Haimson of Class Size...

More money woes this week: city funding for pre-K programs run by community groups was cut in half, leading to the overnight evaporation of about 300 seats. Yet Obama accepted the endorsement of...

It was the last week of school, and the big story was the generally higher test scores, although the controversy continues over what the scores actually mean. Chancellor Klein was riding high on...

An ebullient Chancellor Klein quoted ol' Blue Eyes this morning -- "it was a very good year"-- and lauded the praises of students at Bronx Lab High School(whose graduates he addressed) as well as...

It may be the last Monday of the school year, but the work of education goes on: This evening at 6 pm, the Panel for Education Policywill hold public hearings at MLK High School complex; sign up at...

Too busy worrying if you still have a job, your fifth grader got into middle school or the commute to Manhattan for a G&T program is plausible to read the paper? Don’t worry - we’ve flipped...

During the long wait to hear about middle school acceptance, I've had the chance to think about about what really matters during the often awkward and uncomfortable years. By now, many parents...

As Helen noted yesterday, Chancellor Klein seems to have come up with a formula for reallocating school budgets that penalizes large, successful schools — and that's the story the papers ran with...

From the Sun comes the news that the Brooklyn Prospect Charter School, which had its application denied last year, is now cleared to open in District 15 in 2009. The school will open with grade 6...

Popular, successful elementary schools are overcrowded because too many families want to attend them. Not really news, is it? It is when kids start getting put on waiting lists at neighborhood...

Today Sam Freedman reprises his jeremiad from earlier this year about what happens to schools when large high schools near them begin to phase out. The only thing that's really different in today's...

Last week, the mayor released the city's proposed budget for the upcoming fiscal year. Calling the numbers describing the city's fiscal situation "scary," Mayor Bloomberg preserved the sizable cuts...

Five years after the Leadership Academy was created to train new principals, the DOE is going to start to pick up the bill for it. Until now, the experimental program was supported with private...

For many years, the city's specialized high schools have operated a summer program for disadvantaged students who score close to their admissions cutoff on the Specialized High School Admission...

Plainly stated, the Weighted Regents Pass Rate sucks. For those of you who don't know, the Weighted Regents Pass Rate is an assessment of a school's performance based on students' Regents test...

At a recent Legislative Breakfast in District 3, a member of the state legislature explained that the city's representatives in Albany face challenges as they seek to restore education money to the...

As the mayoral control forums have heralded in an open season against the last five years of New York City school reform, I've heard a growing defense of large high schools. Last week at a New...

The internet's abuzz with talk of this week's New York Times Magazine's cover story, "Teaching Boys and Girls Separately." The article describes a growth in single-sex education nationally, fueled...

It always surprises me how my fellow students always seem to take much more moderate and pragmatic positions on many of today's more controversial education issues than I would expect. At last...