Mary Ann Giordano appears in the following:
New Race to the Top Money Will Support Individualized Teaching
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
The federal government will announce on Tuesday that $400 million will go to districts or clusters of districts that can show how they will focus resources on “students facing signifi...
Snow Days in June? Check Your Local Listings
Monday, May 21, 2012
Note to public school parents: Adjust your calendars. Though the rains keep coming this spring, the winter was a mild one, and in many schools, two snow days that were never used are ...
New Pro-Union Group Jumps Into Mayoral Race
Friday, May 18, 2012
While they are duking it out with the city at the policy level, the public school unions are also hoping to kick it up on the political front, as part of a new coalition, New Yorkers ...
Mural at I.S. 259 Teaches About 9/11 Attack
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
When a student referred to Sept. 11 as "an accident," Thomas J. Buxton, a seventh-grade English teacher at I.S. 259 William McKinley in Dyker Heights, Brooklyn, seized on the topic as...
City and Unions Square Off Over Hiring at 24 Struggling Schools
Wednesday, May 16, 2012
City lawyers go to court on Wednesday to argue that attempts by the teachers' and principals' unions to slow down their hiring of new teachers for 24 schools that the Department of Ed...
Legal Rulings Favor Teachers' Union
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The United Federation of Teachers came away with two legal victories on Monday. One orders the city to go to mediation to establish a teacher evaluation system at 33 struggling school...
At Explore Charter School, a World and a System Divided
Monday, May 14, 2012
One large segment of New York City remains segregated, and that is in the city's schools. As the latest in a New York Times series, "A System Divided," illustrated on Sunday, black ch...
New York Lags as Nation's Science Scores Rise
Friday, May 11, 2012
On a news-filled Friday: the latest science scores for the nation are improving; for New York students -- not so much. There's a chance that students will have two extra days off in J...
Pearson Tells State: We'll Do Better
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Once again the state math and English tests created by Pearson are in the news, with a report that the educational company is feeling the pressure stemming from test errors that have ...
Foreign Language Math Tests Had Problems, Too
Wednesday, May 09, 2012
The discredited questions just keep mounting: The Daily News reports on Wednesday that foreign language versions of the state math exams that were administered at the end of April had...
Union Gears Workshops Toward Parent Power
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
The United Federation of Teachers began a series of workshops for parents on Saturday morning, to help provide them with skills and motivation "to advocate on behalf of their children...
Appreciating, and Assessing, Teachers
Monday, May 07, 2012
Charles M. Blow focused his Op-Ed column on a teacher near and dear to his heart: his mother, a teacher of 34 years who then volunteered in a school after she retired, then won a seat...
Settlement of CityTime Scandal Will Pay for Teachers
Friday, May 04, 2012
The annual city budget tug-of-war has begun. While the City Council, which must approve the budget, is happy that the mayor will use $466 million from the CityTime scandal to hire 2,5...
Mayor's New Budget Protects Teaching Jobs
Thursday, May 03, 2012
There is good news for city schools in the executive budget that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will unveil on Thursday, Gotham Schools reports. As Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott had promis...
Princeton Review Charged With Falsifying Billing for Tutors
Wednesday, May 02, 2012
The United States Attorney's office in Manhattan announced the indictment of one of the largest and most well known private tutoring companies, Princeton Review, for falsifying record...
Teachers vs. Kenneth Cole
Tuesday, May 01, 2012
At first glance, the latest billboard looked innocent enough: Next to a model dressed in a bright red pantsuit, the sign asks, "Shouldn't Everyone Be Well Red?" But beneath that sloga...
Two Similar Schools, Two Very Different Assessments
Monday, April 30, 2012
School progress reports, standardized testing and legal battles over private school tuition were all in the news over the weekend, with Michael Winerip comparing two South Bronx schoo...
A Final Decision for 24 City Schools
Friday, April 27, 2012
At a bit before midnight, more than three months after the idea was first proposed, the Panel for Educational Policy voted to reconstitute two dozen city schools by closing them, repl...
Decision Looms for City Schools
Thursday, April 26, 2012
UPDATED | The Panel for Educational Policy, a city board controlled by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, will vote on the recommendation to close 24 city schools (two others were given repr...
Testing Concerns Keep Coming
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
As math exams for the state's fourth to eighth graders begin on Wednesday, new controversy emerged about the quality of the exams and choices of the exam-maker, Pearson Education.