Later today, Chancellor Joel Klein will speak at the Harlem Success Academycharter lottery. Harlem Success, founded by former City Councilmember Eva Moskowitz, can't ever be faulted for thinking...

Last week one of my teachers raised a topic that brought up some difficult questions: He reminded us that if he knew a student was cutting him or herself, he was legally required to report them to...

Talking about 'giving back' is easy -- yet too often, between the talking and the doing lies a deep gulf of good intentions. But volunteering doesn't have to mean giving up a career or sacrificing...

Jacob Mnookin stood on the edge of the boardwalk in Coney Island, greeting the families who had come to witness the inaugural lottery for Coney Island Prep, south Brooklyn’s first charter school....

When Community Education Councils (CEC) candidates walked into school cafeterias and auditoriums across the city this month to declare why parents should vote for them, they got a shocking reality...

April's a busy season for New York City's 78 charter schools, which currently serve 18,000 students. This coming school year, 24 new charters will open, and charter-school advocates tout high...

Parents who responded to our high-school choice poll have strong opinions on the matter: More than half say there aren't enough good schools for students and families to choose from, with demand...

While thousands of parents and students showed up at the supplementary round high school fair on Tuesday, many of the schools on the Department of Education list of available seats were not...

In the Daily News, Merideth Kolodner profiles a familywhose talented, accomplished son was not matched with any high schools on the first admissions round, echoing comments we're hearing from...

(See the bottom of the post for an afternoon update from the DOE) Upper East Side families zoned for the long-shuttered elementary school PS 151 do not have a zoned school for their children and...

Most 6th-graders aren't yet thinking about high school, but students who aspire to attend the city's most selective high schools, should start planning now. The Specialized High School Institute, a...

This fall 24 charter schools are expected to open across New York City, bringing the total number of city charter schools to more than 100. Although classes don't begin until next August or...

More than half of the readers who responded to our poll said that parents who didn't speak English were involved in their child's school. But the biggest segment, 28 percent, said that non-native...

Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer weighs in on the mayoral control debate, with areport that urges strengthening Community Education Councils (CECs) and increasing their independence, by...

The 7,455 eighth grade students who did not get matched with a high school in the first round are scrambling to research their options and find a good fit. The Department of Education has given...

WARNING: This blog may include spoilers for the Twilight series. A few weeks ago I was talking to my neighbor, a 10 year-old boy at PS 321in Brooklyn, and found out that he had just started...

My children came home from their middle school yesterday looking solemn and ashen-faced, and I knew immediately that something was up. They reported seeing hallways filled with sobbing 8th-graders...

This afternoon, the city's 86,169 8th graders finally got news about their high-school placements for September. According to the Department of Education, just over half got good news from their...

Still looking for an elementary or middle school for your child? You might want to consider one of the new schools opening in September. In addition to the new high schools and charter schools...

Dear Judy, What is the use of taking an Advanced Regents diploma? Do colleges even know what a Regents exam is? Wouldn't it be just as well to take the five basic Regents exams and not bother with...

Q. My daughter is a high school junior. We want to start visiting colleges this year, and we want to know of programs or colleges offering scholarships to minority students (we are...

Dear Judy, We are in the process of applying for middle schools in District 15. Almost every school we have looked at says (1) they are highly selective with many more applicants than spots and...

Dear Judy, Hi, I want to prepare my four-year-old for the OLSAT. We did not get a date, yet, but I heard it could be next month, and I would like to get him some test prep material or a tutor. Do...

In the latest weekly poll, we asked whether you thought there was too much focus on test preparation at your school. The majority of you said yes, with 33 percent reporting "way too much" test prep...

It can't be pure coincidence that the DOE released a report highlighting gains made by English language learners less than a week after aboisterous mayoral-control hearingin the Bronx. And even...