Mary Ann Giordano

As threatened, teachers and teachers' union staff members packed the auditorium of the Brooklyn Technical High School on Wednesday night for the meeting of the Panel for Educational P...

As expected, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo released his proposed state budget on Tuesday, and over all it contained good news for public education: a 4 percent across-the-state increase in aid...

The governor and mayor each took aim at the teachers unions at M.L.K. Day events and pressed for a more stringent teacher evaluation system. But the governor is about to move beyond r...

A highly touted new study by researchers from Harvard and Columbia found a correlation between teacher effectiveness and students' success in life when it comes to earnings, going to ...

Characterize his proposals however you will, but one word can describe Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg's state of the city speech on Thursday: chutzpah. Called groundbreaking and ambitious...

In the news on Thursday, a question: Is the city beginning to hold charter schools to a higher standard? The closing of Peninsula Preparatory Academy Charter School in Far Rockaway, Q...

The sights of the education community are shifting toward the Morris Educational Campus in the Bronx, where Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg will deliver his state of the city speech on Thu...

In the news on Wednesday, a teacher writes critically, but also with affection, about his students and what life is like at his large Bronx high school. And a Manhattan high school t...

New York received a vehement finger-wagging on Monday from the United States education secretary, Arne Duncan, about whether it was fully complying with the terms of its agreement tha...

How much should the city be receiving from the the state and federal government as reimbursements for services it provides to special needs students? By the city's own estimates, tens...

A new, large national study finds that teachers who help raise their students' test scores have a lasting impact on their lives, including increasing their earnings, lowering their c...

Who will be on Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo's education commission? What will be its focus? When will it happen? The governor left many questions in the wake of his State of the State address...

The city and the teachers union remain in a stalemate over a system to evaluate teachers in the city's struggling schools. While state officials say there's still time for them to rev...

Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo will announce a new state panel to look into ways to improve education, assessing what's needed from a student's perspective. Meanwhile, who will blink first in t...

We know that principals are extremely busy. But perhaps the holiday break offers a few minutes for reflection, and some more principals can use SchoolBook to explain their schools to ...

The city's deputy chancellor for portfolio planning explains the decision to recommend the closing of Washington Irving High School. Marc Sternberg wrote: "Our obligation is to our st...

In the news on Thursday, the state attorney general, Eric T. Schneiderman, is investigating whether the Pearson Foundation, the nonprofit arm of Pearson Education, acted improperly to...

A dispute over a lunchtime basketball game on the Brooklyn campus sent an angry student scurrying to find a weapon. The authorities said he grabbed a scissors and then stabbed Alfredo Allen in the head several times.

With increased emphasis on standardized testing a sore point (to put it mildly) for many parents and educators -- and with this year's test results also factoring into teacher evaluat...

The Times reports that many educators, school boards and districts -- including the city's Department of Education -- are struggling to find a balance to protect students from inappr...