Manhattan Had Biggest Common Core Knowledge Gap Among Boroughs, Says Study
The Common Core test, implemented in New York City public schools for the first time last year, caused a stir because much fewer students passed it than the previous version. It set a higher standard...
View ArticleAvonte Oquendo's Mother Warned School He "Liked to Run," Requested One-on-One...
The search for missing autistic boy Avonte Oquendo came to a heartbreaking end in January, when his remains were found near Powell Cove Boulevard in Queens. A new report released yesterday by the...
View ArticleMan Arrested In Attack on Sikh Columbia Professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh
In September, Columbia University professor Dr. Prabhjot Singh was attacked by a large group of young men near 110th Street and Lennox in Harlem, not far from his home. The men grabbed his beard,...
View ArticleHere's What It Looks Like When Reverend Billy and His Choir Visit a Harvard...
When we last heard from anti-consumerist preacher Reverend Billy and his Stop Shopping Gospel Choir, he was in a spot of legal trouble. In recent years, the choir's message has shifted away from the...
View ArticleNYC Charter School Enrollment: from 2K to 59k in a Decade
During the 2002-2003 school year, 2,400 kids attended a charter school in New York City. Last year, 59,000 kids did. Over that time, enrollment in traditional public schools and in Catholic schools...
View ArticleLouis C.K. Went On An Amazing Twitter Rant Against Standardized Testing and...
Everyone hates the Common Core, a set of "educational standards" that 44 states have adopted for their K-12 students. Really. Everyone. The ultra right hates it because it's a sinister Obama-controlled...
View ArticleSt. Mark's Bookshop Has Moved to East 3rd Street, Won't Be Called East 3rd...
It's been coming for a long time, but it still doesn't quite lessen the sting: St. Mark's Bookshop has moved from its longtime location on 3rd Avenue. The venerable bookseller had been battling its...
View ArticleStaten Island Teachers Furious Their Union Didn't Want Them to Wear NYPD...
A group of public school teachers in Staten Island planned to wear T-shirts supporting the New York Police Department to the first day of school yesterday, but most backed off after warnings from their...
View ArticleThere Aren't as Many Rats as Humans in NYC. Stop Saying That
A recent study estimates that there are about 2 million rats in New York City, thus busting the urban myth that there are as many rats as people -- around 8 million -- in the Big Apple...
View ArticleWhile Demanding Better Wages and Benefits, NYU Graduate Assistants Are...
Graduate students at New York University are weighing whether to step out of the library and onto the picket line. The Graduate School Organizing Committee -- the union that represents NYU's teaching...
View ArticleStudent Activism in U.S. on Rise; CUNY History Prof Creates Google Map to...
A historian at the City University of New York who specializes in student activism has created a nifty Google map that charts 50 student protests, walkouts, and demonstrations that have transpired...
View ArticleMeet the Two New Yorkers Who Are Starting a Preschool for Adults
Michelle Joni Lapidos is the girl who would not grow up...
View ArticleIt's Fate: First Teen Malia Obama Must Move to New York
First Teen Malia Obama got online New Yorkers into a tizzy when she was spotted Friday on campus tours of New York University, Barnard College, and Columbia University. The Sidwell Friends School...
View ArticleCharter Schools CEO Incorporates Soccer Just as NYC FC Looks to City's Youth...
Success Academy Charter Schools, which has won praise for its students' academic achievements, has quietly launched a soccer program after recruiting a coach from one of Manhattan's most successful...
View ArticleNYU Graduate Students Say They Will Strike If Health Care and Wage Demands...
The union that represents New York University's nearly 1,000 teaching and research assistants is threatening to strike on March 10 after months of fruitless bargaining negotiations with university...
View ArticleKingsborough Offers Culinary Chops at a Bargain Price
Cooking is a notoriously cutthroat business. With hands gnarled by years of burns and lacerations, chefs spend their careers climbing the slippery rungs of the restaurant industry, hoping to graduate...
View ArticleParents Want Power, More Sway Over NYC Public Schools
On a sunny Saturday morning in early March, around 40 parents — mostly mothers — sat in a small room in a downtown Brooklyn office building at desks arranged in rows. They faced a screen emblazoned...
View ArticleHere's How Mayor de Blasio Hopes to Educate Your Toddlers in the Future
"What is that noise?" Evelyn Salzman asks her mother. She is listening to the tip-tap of shoes on a stairway...
View ArticleComedian Natasha Vaynblat Channels Public School Teacher Angst
For a performer, any kind of exposure is a good thing. But as comedian Natasha Vaynblat recently learned, sometimes being discovered can be mortifying. Vaynblat, 27, worked for four years as a public...
View ArticleCharlie Hebdo's Editors Illustrate the Importance of Being Uncomfortable
View image | gettyimages.com The editorial cartoons that incited the January 7 attack by Islamist extremists on the offices of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo portrayed the prophet Muhammad in...
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