by Jennifer Freeman Can you call an activity “planning” if it consists of playing catch-up with old problems (years of chronic underfunding of school construction) while ignoring new ones (massive...

If you've spent all week wondering whether paying some teachers not to teach improves the over-all quality of instruction, or if you have been too engrossed in the Times Magazine’s annual College...

Three 6-12 schools already exist in Brooklyn's District 15 -- The Secondary Schools for Law, Journalism and Social Research, in the old John Jay High School building -- to mixed reviews, but the...

Should teachers at schools destined for closure double down and teach with greater vigor -- or slouch into oblivion? An article by Jennifer Medinain today's Times highlights the apparently...

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...

A feature in today's Timesshowcases rising efforts by many colleges and universities to diminish the influence of the SAT exam in college admissions; scholars and journalists have repeatedly...

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...

Wall Street may be flailing but this week, many city teachers and principals are flush, thanks to bonuses based on the school progress reports.There also still seems to be enough cash left...

In a disturbing, cross-town coincidence, NY1 reports that students at three high schools have been exposed to pepper spray this week, with more than two dozen kids evaluated for complaints ranging...

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 DOEhosts its all-city high school fair this weekend at Brooklyn Tech; see this article in the current Insideschools alert for a nuts-and-bolts guide to beginning the high school admissions...

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...

Talk of testing dominated the news this week. Whether it was the mayor’s new plan to test kindergarten, first, and second grade students or the results of the SAT exam, the testing debates...

Progress-report guru James Liebman made front-page news today with an email proposal to bring standardized testing to the kindergarten classroom. These test scores, the DOE says, wouldn't affect...

Chancellor Joel Klein has announced a new pilot program in 10 high-need grade schools to improve reading education, based on E.D. Hirsch's Core Knowledge curriculum (for reference, see his popular...

The State and the City finally released the 2007 high school graduation rate today, and the news is both heartening and discouraging, on more than a few counts. First, the good news: The overall...

Citing competition as the key to success, Mayor Bloomberg says that pressure from charter schools force traditional public schools to improve. But advocates like Leonie Haimson of Class Size...

As parents and students begin gearing up for the new school year, the news this week was dominated by the standard – yet colossal and complicated – contemporary education debates, including charter...

In a signature transposition of business practice into the education environment, the Klein administration at the DOE has installed a range of mechanisms to pay people -- teachers, principals, and...

Last week, Insideschools spoke with Anna Commitante (head of DOE G+T), Elizabeth Sciabarra (OSEPO head) and Marty Barr (OSEPO's elementary-schools head) about gifted and talented programs,...

by Liz Willen There's no way of getting around the constant search for schools in New York City -- from getting into pre-kindergarten (far more complicated than necessary this year) to finding a...

The end of July may seem like low season for high school, but parents of rising 8th graders with questions about small and charter high schools have a chance to learn more tomorrow evening, in a...

District family advocates, positions newly created by the DOE's Office of Family Engagement and Advocacybefore the 2007-08 school year, will be fewer and farther between in 2008-09, according to a...

Students without placements or unhappy with school assignments in Brooklyn can attend the DOE's new school fair today at Brooklyn's Borough Hallfrom 4-7 p.m. New middle and high schools with open...