The New York State Education Department is failing to ensure that Regents tests are properly scored, according to an audit published today by the state comptroller’s office.
The exams are given to high school students, who have to pass five in different subject areas in order to receive a Regents diploma. [...]
Students from several high schools were joined by City Councilman Robert Jackson for a protest of the city’s recent ban on bake sales during the school day. Jackson, who chairs the Council’s education committee, signed the students’ petition and then partook of a few [...]
Last June, Matthew Ladner, Vice President of Research at the far right Goldwater Institute and regular blogger at Jay Greene and the United Cherry Pickers, was madly blogging [see here and here] about the civic ignorance of Oklahoma high school students.
According to Ladner, a survey [...]
Two shootings and a stabbing in Fort Greene yesterday "were the result" of a cheap chicken wing event at a nearby eatery, according to the commanding officer of Brooklyn's 88 Precinct. High school students from across the [...]
As part of Mayor Bloomberg's H1N1 flu plan for NYC, the Board of Health has opened vaccination centers this weekend in all five boroughs for middle school and high school students. Elementary scho...
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