Last Thursday in District 3, the Department of Education and parents attempted haltingly to hold a conversation about what schools should replace the closing MS44 and PS241. I say “attempted”...

It isn’t easy getting information from a 13-year-old, which is one reason I’m at least mildly curious about the interviews my son had as part of the torturous high school application process. “So...

Beginning this evening and continuing through the week, DOE representatives will host Middle School Choice Information Sessions,to help parents and students manage the middle school application...

At a time of escalating economic contraction -- and when the City Council, which not so long ago fought potential education budget cuts to the penny, now proposes $ 75 million in DOE trims--...

While working with DOE to develop last month’s resolution, District 3 CEC members heard that MS44 was on a list of schools under consideration for closure, but that no final decision had yet been...

News that the DOE will close three schoolsarrived with a thud; the schools will close in June, and open, reconfigured (or reimagined entirely) in September. The schools on the present chopping...

The DOE's repeating the 'hybrid' middle-school admissions process it piloted last year -- applications and calendars centralized by DOE but individual schools, programs, and districts setting...

Last night, the Community Education Council for District 3 passed a controversial resolution which rezones three large apartment buildings on the Upper West Side from the popular PS 199 to...

by Liz Willen When I first visited the Lab School for Collaborative Studies three years ago, I hoped my oldest son, then a fifth-grader, would rank it first on his middle school list. Lab has...

Middle school families inclined to celebrate the next President's inauguration in Washington D.C. faced a mighty calendar conflict, as the tests are slated to begin on January 20th, Inauguration...

Tonight's CEC 3 meeting might include a showdown between parents and administrators from two different schools that share one overcrowded building, wrote Insideschools.org alumna Philissa Cramer on...

_ UPDATE: The high school progress reports were released today and can be found on the DOE website. For real data-heads, all of the statistics used to compile the progress reports are available in...

At a Manhattan Institutebreakfast yesterday morning, held at the plush, posh Harvard Club, accountability bigwigs from the DOE, Columbia Universityand the Institute debated the effects of F...

The results are in! And it turns out that a Catholic school in Queens 'elected' the winning candidate... again. High school students in the South Bronx had been holding their breath earlier this...

In order to accommodate voting machines and long lines of voters, there was no school today for city students (although teachers and administrators had to show up for professional development)....

by Liz Willen As a veteran of both middle school and high school tours (not to mention the many college tours I’ve been on as an education journalist), I'm getting really sick of the...

On the national education front, the College Board has developed a test to assess college readiness -- in 8th graders. Described as a "low-stakes" instrument -- whatever that is -- the ReadiStep...

No Child Left Behind, the Bush administration's signature education initiative, comes up for Congressional review next year. The NCLB law mandates that schools make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) on...

As the stock market dips and swings, families at city private schools are considering switching to public schools, threatening to flood already-overcrowded schools. Officials in Riverdale, coping...

Saturday was one of those perfect Indian summer days. The beach beckoned; the greenmarkets overflowed with pungent basil and ripe produce; tourists marched in droves over the Brooklyn Bridge to see...

Tens of thousands of New Yorkers came to Brooklyn Tech this weekend for the high school fair, with lines that wrapped up Fort Greene Place and along Fulton Street. More than 19,000 people attended...

The first step in our family's New York City public high school search did not involve delving into our growing piles of books, papers and test prep brochures, gathered at various information...

Chancellor Klein and UFT president Randi Weingarten announced this morning that more than 6,000 elementary and middle schools educators will receive cash bonuses in reward for their schools’...

The same sixth-graders who were in their first week of middle school, seven years ago today, are in their first month of college.  2001's first-graders are now eighth-graders; the children who fill...

Yes, the new-school dust is still swirling, but for families of eighth-graders, the high school admissions process looms large on the horizon. Much of what you've heard is true: The process is...