March 26 Update -- The earliest a school can set its application deadline is April 1. Many schools, because of next week's vacation, set a later deadline. These dates can be found in the DOE's...

Still looking for a new school for next September? You may want to consider one of the 17 elementary or middle schools that will be opening next fall. Most have been in the works for awhile, but a...

The first round of kindergarten applications for the 2010-2011 school year are due today, and already some schools have more applicants than seats available. However, new schools, and rezoning in...

All around the city, schools are embracing and thriving on green. Some are learning about climate change from teacher resources like Earth Day NY or Facing the Future. Others are building green...

Mandy Hass is a parent at Lower Lab, as well as the director of marketing and business development for Insideschools.org. Last week's Village Voice cover story, Inside a Divided Upper East Side...

Got time for a protest today? Join The Alliance for Quality Education, and other other community and education groups, at one of 18 protests against statewide education budget cuts. There's at...

Two Brooklyn parents are joining forces with Advocates for Children (AFC) to challenge the extension of PAVE Academy Charter School's colocation with PS 15. Despite public protest, the Panel for...

The Panel for Educational Policy approved 13 charter school colocation proposals at its monthly meeting, held Wednesday night at the Fashion Industries High School in Chelsea. New York City...

A few weeks back, Insideschools attended the yearly New High Schools Fair. We were lucky enough to speak with faculty and staff from each  school about their hopes and plans for the 2010/2011...

The Department of Education announced that open houses scheduled for this Wednesday, Feb. 10 for students accepted at specialized high schools, will be postponed until Feb. 22 because of predicted...

New York City is such a peculiarly competitive place to live that even toddlers may receive rejection letters from pre-schools, so you think they might be prepared when it comes time for choosing a...

Sixteen new high schools set to open next September are profiled in the Directory of the New High Schools, now available on the Department of Education's website. Representatives from many of the...

The Department of Education is rolling out plans to open new schools next fall across the city. The DOE announced Tuesday that it will add six schools to the list of Brooklyn schools already slated...

Judging by the commentary on one of  Insideschools'  recent polls, heavy homework loads seem to trigger impassioned responses from both parents and students. Do nightly assignments in kindergarten...

After nine hours of parent, teacher, and politician testimony at a boisterous meeting at Brooklyn Tech last night, the Panel for Educational Policy rubber-stamped the decision to close 19 city...

January 21 Update: Red Hook community members gathered before last night's public hearing atPS 15 to voice their discontent with the extension of PAVE Academy's co-location within PS 15. They...

Actor Matthew Modine started a chat with middle school students at Brooklyn's New Horizons School, MS 442 on Wednesday by turning off the overhead fluorescent lights to reduce energy. “I feel...

Q: My stepson is a high school junior and lives in Puerto Rico. He really wants to go to college in New York City. Can you recommend a good website or resource for us to help him prepare for the...

A host of parental postings on this blog in recent weeks have included the following concern: “My child has so much homework and gets so little sleep that I feel really sorry for him/her.” Often,...

The  Department of Education's proposed closing of some 20 schools—including several large high schools which will be phased out and replaced by small schools—prompted an outcry by students and...

It was hard not to feel empathy for the aspiring dancer depicted on the front page of the New York Times last week, in an excellent piece by Jennifer Medinathat looked at the grueling schedule of...

A dozen New York City high schools were awarded gold medals by US News and World Report, in its annual ranking of the 100 best high schools in the nation. Schools are ranked according to the degree...

Yesterday the Department of Education announced its  intention to close four schools it considers failing:  Maxwell High School for Career and Technical Education in Brooklyn,  the Academy of...

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Allison Gaines Pell is the founder and principal of a new, small public middle school called Arts & Letters, located in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. She lives in Brooklyn, and is a public school...