The Upper East Side will be getting a new elementary school next fall to help alleviate overcrowding which caused long wait lists for kindergarten last year in the neighborhood's schools. The...

This weekend, the Department of Education is hosting a fair for new high schools at Emigrant Savings Bank, across the street from DOE headquarters at 51 Chambers Street. No word yet about how many...

Is your child turning five this year? Today, Feb. 1 is the first day to submit a kindergarten application. Families may apply to multiple schools by going directly to the school with proof of...

Judging by the commentary on one of  Insideschools'  recent polls, heavy homework loads seem to trigger impassioned responses from both parents and students. Do nightly assignments in kindergarten...

In our most recent poll, we asked how you felt about your school security officers. "Great!" said 35% of respondents.  But 63% had concerns, and of those, 18% felt police officers don't belong...

In a 6-4 decision, the District 2 Community Education Council approved the Department of Education's "Option 2" proposal for temporarily rezoning Lower Manhattan's school boundaries. Under the...

<!--StartFragment-->Yesterday I had the privilege of serving on a panel at the new Urban Assembly School for Green Careers, listening to 9th graders hold a debate. The topic was “Proposed: a...

After nine hours of parent, teacher, and politician testimony at a boisterous meeting at Brooklyn Tech last night, the Panel for Educational Policy rubber-stamped the decision to close 19 city...

A recent poll by Insideschools.org found parents overwhelmingly against the bake sale restrictions imposed by the chancellor. Insideschools' readers were not alone in their disapproval. The outcry...

Q: How difficult is it to transfer to another college? Is it easier or harder than getting admitted as a freshman? Also, does the college you are applying to look at your high school record or just...

Parents packed into the District 3 CEC meeting on Jan. 20 to hear Department of Education officials address the impact of charter schools moving into public schools in Harlem, and overcrowding in...

I looked at the scattered notes and index cards covering my dining room table last week, struck by a distant but very real memory of my college freshman self during finals: Sprawled out at 6 a.m....

Five students and their parents sued the city this week, claiming that kids have been wrongly handcuffed, assaulted, and arrested by school safety officers employed by the New York City Police...

"Don’t think. If you think, you will fail." That's not a Zen master speaking, but my government teacher. "I’ve seen plenty of students go wrong because they were creative, intelligent people and...

January 21 Update: Red Hook community members gathered before last night's public hearing atPS 15 to voice their discontent with the extension of PAVE Academy's co-location within PS 15. They...

Dear Judy, My mother told me that I should write to you about the fact that that I forgot all my math facts when the teacher gave us two minutes to solve 32 multiplication problems. Do you think...

Someone asked me: do I worry my daughter will be "labeled" by getting an IEP(Individualized Education Plan) and switching to theCTT (Collaborative Team Teaching) classroom? That's a good question,...

The Department of Education awarded a $12 million grant to the non-profit group Out2Play Inc. to construct 70 new playgrounds across New York City's five boroughs. The first 30 playgrounds are...

Actor Matthew Modine started a chat with middle school students at Brooklyn's New Horizons School, MS 442 on Wednesday by turning off the overhead fluorescent lights to reduce energy. “I feel...

Q: My stepson is a high school junior and lives in Puerto Rico. He really wants to go to college in New York City. Can you recommend a good website or resource for us to help him prepare for the...

A host of parental postings on this blog in recent weeks have included the following concern: “My child has so much homework and gets so little sleep that I feel really sorry for him/her.” Often,...

Gov. David Paterson unveiled a bill Thursday that aims to improve New York's chances of receiving $700 million in Race to the Top funds. Since the introduction of the Race to the Top in 2009,...

At 7 a.m.on Tuesday, I and 15 of my fellow students, stood on the steps of Martin Luther King Educational Campusshaking with cold and clutching signs that protested the proposed student MetroCard...

The United Federation of Teachers, alongside a coalition of parents and community groups, filed a lawsuit today against the New York City Department of Education, claiming that it failed to...

Dear Judy, What can I do if a teacher intentionally lowers my son's grades? He is in the 2nd grade of the gifted and talented class. At the parent teacher conference the teacher said that my son...