Ojeda Hall (pronounced “O zsey da”) took office as director of the Department of Education’s Office of Family Engagement and Advocacy on August 2, replacing Martine Guerrier, who left to become a...

I’m getting close to asking Mayor Michael Bloomberg, or even Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, to sign a letter to employers around New York City, asking them to grant parents in the midst of choosing...

With the first full week of classes behind them, families and schools are settling into their routines. Most new students have registered, PTA meetings have been scheduled, some out-of-work...

After what seemed like a false start that first Wednesday, the school year has finally lurched into gear, to the relief of most parents (some I know opted to extend summer until the 13th) and even...

Dear Judy, I'm a currently a freshman and I hate my high school. I really want to transfer out. I want to talk to my guidance counselor about transferring but I have a few questions: 1. Can I get...

Q:   My son's high school offers very few Advanced Placement courses but does let qualifying students take actual college courses at nearby colleges.  Are the in-school APs weighted the same as...

On their first day back at middle school last week, my eighth-grade son and his classmates heard three words many have been dreading all summer: high school admissions. “Can you believe they made...

Dear Judy I was wondering if you knew about the situation with some Regents exams being discontinued. I know that only a few language Regents are being kept, and the language I am taking isn't one...

Middle school students enrolled in K-8 schools fare better on standardized tests than those in typical middle schools, serving only grades 6-8, according to a study authored by Columbia University...

Q: My daughter is currently attending a private school and is beginning her junior year.  She was told that if she transfers out to a public school she will be able to take more AP and honors...

The Panel for Educational Policy (PEP) has scheduled two meetings in late August to address unfinished business from its August 16  meeting that was cut shortin response to a  parent-led protest...

The deadline to apply for upper grade Gifted and Talented programshas been extended from August 27 to September 17, according to an update on the Department of Education's website. Acceptance into...

TheCenter for Leadership and College Preparation, affiliated with Bank Street College of Education, offers educational opportunities both to high-achieving students and to struggling students. The...

Parents bounced from table to table at a Harlem school fair on Saturday, filling up tote bags with pamphlets and eagerly asking about admissions requirements. Harlem has one of the highest...

Last night, hundreds of parents attended a forum dedicated to overcrowding issues at elementary and middle schools in Chelsea and the Village. The meeting, sponsored by the Community Education...

A parent of a District 15 fifth-grader wrote us about middle-school tours, and the people who offer them.  While experiences vary from person to person, parent OR child, this parent's observations...

Insideschools.org has learned about an overlooked bit of bureaucrat-ese that deserves wide exposure -- and considerable challenge as well, especially given the Chancellor's recent endorsement of...

Today marks the launch of the third annual school learning environment survey through which the DOE aims to hear from 1.5 million New Yorkers -- parents, students, teachers, and other schools...

In a column unfortunately slated to run during the opening weekend of school vacation, NYT columnist Nicholas Kristof wakes up at last to the schoolyard bell: Education is the issue, and the key to...

While awaiting word from the city's specialized high schools this week, I found myself saying meaningless words to my anxious 13-year-old:``If we lived in the suburbs,'' I told him, "You and your...

Eighth-graders across the city learned this afternoon whether they had been offered seats at the city's specialized high schools, including the eight testing schools, for which student take the...

This weekend, the DOE is hosting a fair for New High Schools, at Clara Barton High School in Brooklyn -- but they still haven't published a complete, official list of all the new high schools that...

Historically, most New York City high school students have been eligible to earn Local or more rigorous Regents diplomas. But reforms set in motion over a decade ago by New York State Regents now...

DOE officials have announced the phase-out of Brandeis High School, one of the last remaining "comprehensive" -- ie, large and struggling -- high schools on the Upper West Side. Current students...

Rejection isn't easy to take, no matter how it arrives. When my toddler son didn't get accepted to a neighborhood pre-school more than 10 years ago, I was new to the concept of competition for...