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...

Today's thunder and lightning may just be place-setters for the budget battle gearing up in Albany. Governor David Paterson is expected to testify this morning before the House Ways and Means...

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...

Parents of preschoolers will soon be aware, if they're not already, of the application and testing process for gifted and talented programs. Last year, the newly centralized process was plagued...

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...

by Jennifer Freeman The City Council hearings on school siting today should be lively. In some districts DOE says it sees a need for new schools but cannot find proper sites, while other districts...

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...

Looks like early-grade testing will commence at 57 city schools. Parents may have issues with tender-years testing, but the schools participating in this DOE pilot all volunteered for the...

In today's Times, a retired social studies teacher and very proud papa got in trouble at Brooklyn Tech -- fined and reprimanded, for his decision as school librarian to showcase a comic-book...

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...

Bringing academically talented children who are not native English speakers into the city's gifted and talented programs is a long-touted goal of the DOE, last year's mixed-bag testing results...

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...

Glorious fall days -- brilliantine skies, blazing foliage, crisp breezes -- promise soccer games and bike rides, country hikes and apple-picking adventures. But families of eighth-graders should...

The NY Times picks up the NCLB threadtoday, with a close study of a solid California school that's shown steady, upward growth -- although not at the rapid rate NCLB and state planners agreed as...

No Child Left Behind, the Bush administration's signature education initiative, comes up for Congressional review next year. The NCLB law mandates that schools make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) on...

As the stock market dips and swings, families at city private schools are considering switching to public schools, threatening to flood already-overcrowded schools. Officials in Riverdale, coping...

Chancellor Joel Klein, visiting the Hudson Guild Children's Center, announced today that "thousands" of seats remain open in the city's universal pre-K program. Worth asking: How did the seat...

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...

The long-anticipated death of print has two new late-September heralds: First, the imminent demise of the New York Sun, which may fold this week unless a deep-pocketed sponsor, un-scarred by market...

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...

Both the Sunand the Times today take up the thorny issue of 'excessed' teachers, after a UFTpress conference and volleys of emails and other communication between DOEand UFT leadership. Of the...

The economy's dominating the national news, and on the civic landscape, the proposed across-the-board 2.5% budget cuts requested by Mayor Bloomberg could translate to $185 million in cuts to the...