Mary Ann Giordano

With just days until the Panel for Educational Policy meets on Thursday to vote on the closing of 26 public schools slated for "turnaround," forces are continuing to rally to save one...

English Language Arts exam week ended on Friday with the decision by state Education Commissioner John B. King Jr. to scrap the answers to an absurd question -- literally and otherwis...

For the second time this week, a study came out identifying a relationship between where a child lives and his or her ability to attend a high-performing school. The latest is by the...

It has been a challenging week for many third- through eighth-grade public school students in New York City, as they have started their days on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday with th...

Students at Intermediate School 318 Eugenio Maria de Hostos in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, returned to their school on Tuesday as conquering heroes, having accomplished the extraordinary ...

Public school students throughout the city will be sitting down on Tuesday for a series of federally mandated tests that will be influential in everything from students' promotions to...

Testing, striving and tutoring are very much in the news on this warm April day, the first back from spring break for public school students and staff. The New York Times has a report...

The city's determination to close the Believe Charter Network schools came into focus on Thursday when its founder, Eddie Calderon-Melendez, was arrested on 11 felony counts, includin...

A team of Edward R. Murrow High School students that epitomizes polyglot New York is in Minneapolis this spring break weekend, competing in the chess nationals. The students are hopin...

Education Week reports on a new study of school spending in Michigan, which concludes that "charter schools spend more per-pupil on administration and less on instruction than traditi...

Anna M. Phillips reports in The New York Times on Tuesday that legislators are increasingly open to the idea of allowing parents to see the evaluations of their child's teacher, but n...

The city wanted to fire a Washington Heights music teacher, Michael Dalton, for inappropriately holding three third-grade boys in his lap, The Times reports. But then Mr. Dalton, 48, ...

The New York Times has a disturbing report related to something that seems to be an epidemic so far this year: school staff members' sexual conduct with students. The report cites 16 ...

As city schools head into spring vacation, starting on Friday, Dennis M. Walcott is marking a personal day of celebration: his one-year anniversary as city schools chancellor. To mark...

To counter the influence of the teachers' union, powerful forces like Joel I. Klein, Michelle Rhee, Eva S. Moskowitz, Edward I. Koch and Geoffrey Canada, backed by a number of venture...

Like a roller coaster on its final descent, the city's "turnaround" push for 33 "struggling schools" seemed to be picking up speed and heading toward an inevitable conclusion. But in...

The New York City public school system has about 1.1 million students -- a number so large that it is easy to forget that it is made up of individuals. In his On Education column in T...

With conflicting budget figures rolling around, the city continues to insist: not to worry. Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott said Tuesday at a City Council hearing on the preliminary budg...

With all that there is to be outraged about when it comes to public education and the fate of American children, the Internet is having a silly fit about a clause in a request for pro...

The College Board's Educational Testing Service, which administers the SAT, and ACT Inc., which administers the ACT exam -- both of which are used for college admissions -- said stude...