Is Homework Necessary? Also: A Truce Over Teaching Math
Sep 26, 2006
One educational dispute seems to be calming down, while another is heating up. IS HOMEWORK NECESSARY? The debate over homework has been heating up amid the annually renewed battles between parents and
Debating Health, Education, Reform and, Yes, Atlantic Yards, in Central Brooklyn
Aug 14, 2006
Even though the proposed Atlantic Yards project is not in State Senate District 20, the project is a central issue in this year’s Senate race. The high rises
Teen Activists
Aug 14, 2006
Last summer, with a grant from the United Nations, teenagers at the organization Open Road of New York interviewed neighborhood kids to find out what they thought their
The Padlocked Playgrounds
Aug 11, 2006
The basketball courts at PS 92 in Harlem, the handball court at MS 44 on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, and the red monkey bars with the spiral slide at PS
How Will Power Shift To The Principals?
Jul 27, 2006
The idea behind Chancellor Joel Klein's latest reorganization of schools is this: Principals -- not superintendents -- should run schools and control the lion's share of the budget. It is a simple idea,
Giving Principals More Control
Jun 23, 2006
This spring, the city's 1,400 principals got a choice: Do you want to stay with your current boss? Or do you think you could run your school better on your
Grading Students, Grading Schools
Jun 05, 2006
Sixteen-year-old Kiri Davis took a black doll and a white doll to a Harlem daycare center and asked the children there, all of whom were black, which doll they liked
Hanging Up on Parents?
May 22, 2006
Nothing that Mayor Michael Bloomberg has done on education in the last four years has drawn as much protest as the enforcement of the ban on cell phones in schools.
Cell Phone Ban Angers Students
May 22, 2006
On April 26, New York City police officers set up mobile security scanners at the Acorn High School for Social Justice in Brooklyn. They seized 129 cell phones, 10 CD |