I understand why you were taken aback by that article in the "Style" section of The New York Times last week that described how charter schools have become a must-have among hedge-fund managers, billionaires, and other members of the social elite in New York City. The article bothered [...]
New York City’s hedge fund multimillionaires are backing charter schools, reports the New York Times.
“If you’re at a hedge fund, this is definitely the hot cause,” said Joe Williams, the executive director of Democrats for Education Reform, a nonprofit group that lobbies for charters and is financed [...]
This week New York City announced that it was closing four public schools. It’s rather unusual to hear of a school system closing schools for any reason, let alone justifying it on academic, as opposed to population and enrollment-related, grounds. Yet, that’s exactly what they did. In a detailed [...]
From The Times December 3, 2009″
Ivy league men attract female students to the US
The lure of meeting an Ivy League man is encouraging female school-leavers to apply to America’s top universities
Emma Watson and Spanish rock star Rafael Cebrián at a recent New York City ice [...]
NY dad pleads guilty to kidnapping superintendent AP
A former New York City police officer has admitted
he held a suburban school superintendent at gunpoint in June....
After six years adjusting to the climates of Bolivia, New York City and Minneapolis, the School of Bloggers will now return to where they first met: Washington, D.C.What's your question? Photo by flickr user Margaret Anne Clarke
It's been a busy week for the HackCollege crew. We all met up on Tuesday in New York City for the live taping of the Diggnation. It was the first time [...]
Will the world end in 2012? Impressed by ads for the new disaster movie, 2012, New York City students seem to think it’s a documentary, reports Ms. Rubin, a science teacher now covering earth sciences.
. . . every time I introduce them to some new feature of the [...]
We've heard Floridians complain for years that the state's school grading system does little more than commemorate which schools have wealthy, involved families and which do not.
The same concern has emerged in New York City, where the school system employs a grading program similar to Florida's.
The N.Y. Times reports today [...]
Basic algebra stumps most first-year students at City University of New York freshmen, according to a CUNY report.
“These results are shocking,” said City College Prof. Stanley Ocken, who co-wrote the report on CUNY kids’ skills. “They show that a disturbing proportion of New York City high school graduates lack basic [...]
It's expensive. It's numbers are few. But the so-called "residency" model of teacher preparation piloted in Chicago, Denver, and Boston has been gaining steam over the past five years. There are now examples in Memphis, Philly, and New York City. The President and [...]
