While it's high season for pre-K and Kindergarten applications, families of children with special needs are part of the admissions process, too, and want information on which schools will best...

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...

By unanimous vote, the UFT board approved a plan to put hundreds of teachers in New York City's Absent Teacher Reserve back to work. The ATR program, estimated to cost DOE (and thus taxpayers)...

All the papers today cover the newly released high school progress reports. The Times has a good breakdown of grades and school size, the Newshighlights a significant bump in schools earning top...

Earlier this afternoon, DOE released progress report grades for the city's high schools. Here's the link to the new set of grades. Unfortunately, the new set doesn't show you what the schools...

_ 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...

Last week I discovered that a friend of mine lives alone in an apartment in midtown Manhattan (at age 16) while the rest of her family lives in Pennsylvania. She gets along well with her mother and...

A week of bad budget and economic news does not bode well for the city’s high schools. The New York Daily News reported that the city's newly downsized capital plan includes plans for just two new...

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...

Late yesterday afternoon, with little fanfare and zero public pronouncement, the DOE released its new capital plan for 2010-2014. Remarkably lower-key than the splashy launch of the first capital...

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)....

Comments made by Anna Commitante at aparent forum this weekin Brooklyn seemed to contradict the posted, published gifted and talented handbookin regard to DOE policy on sibling preference. For...

Some spooky Halloween disappearing act (or perhaps a whisper from DOE?) may explain how a piece of investigative reportingvanished into thin air. Another surprise came from the UFT, in support of...

Hundreds of parents lined up at PS 58 last night in Brooklyn for information on gifted and talented programs. Info booklets, which were in short supply, describe the application and testing process...

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...

If you know a great high-school science or math teacher -- someone who's been in the public school classroom for at least five years, and is teaching at least four periods a day -- the Sloan...

At the NYC Student Union meeting today we discussed the somewhat obvious connection that education has with race, income and neighborhood. We talked about the way people are born onto education...

It looks like the city and the schools might get four more years of Bloomberg and Klein; when push came to shove, the City Council’s Education Committee was proportionally more supportive of the...

As the high school search for my eighth-grader intensifies, I've been reading up on some interesting and relatively new schools. All are far from where we live and not at all convenient: Frank...

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...

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...

It's axiomatic that steady attendance promotes steady learning: The more you show up, the more you learn. But attendance is more than a simple (if vital) predictor of learning, according to a new...

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...

Everyone knows that the SAT is a pre-college ritual -- dreaded, anticipated, debated, and ultimately taken (and re-taken) by millions of high-school seniors. Now comes news from Baylor...