Mary Ann Giordano

At a City Council hearing on parent involvement, parents were not shy about saying that they do not feel that they are as much of a priority as is frequently stated by Education Depar...

Eva S. Moskowitz's Success Academy Network of charter schools will be moving into two locations in Brooklyn, Cobble Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant, despite resistance to co-locating the ...

The Panel for Educational Policy will meet Wednesday evening in Queens to discuss, among other things, the proposal by the Success Academy charters to expand in Brooklyn. The teacher...

After several months of reporting on K12, a publicly traded company that manages online learning programs, "a portrait emerges of a company that tries to squeeze profits from public s...

Objections from the public continue over the Education Department's decision to move Wednesday night's Panel for Educational Policy meeting to Queens from Manhattan, with critics sayi...

The proverbial other shoe will drop Friday, when as many as 10 more New York City public schools will be placed on a list to be closed, but the fallout has already begun after the cit...

A few hundred people, the vast majority of whom were parents, turned out for SchoolBook's first community event on the campus of the Pratt Institute, where Chancellor Dennis M. Walcot...

Buried in the reading and math results released in the report of the National Assessment of Educational Progress was a glimmer of good news for New York City: Poor students did less p...

At SchoolBook, we are assessing the site every day, discussing tweaks and larger changes, and testing the experience against our expectations. If we were issuing ourselves a progress ...

Jump rope, freeze tag and the jungle gym, once staples of lunchtime play, are being squeezed out at some of the city’s highest-rated public elementary schools, where recess is now bei...

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg was speaking hypothetically last week when he said his ideal school system, which he also said could never be attained, would have teachers of the highest q...

Monday morning brings happy news about an intermediate school chess team that is so good that it whipped the brainiacs at Google last week. But there is also disturbing news about how...

UPDATED | In a talk at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology this week, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said he would choose higher quality teachers over smaller class sizes: “If I had...

Teachers and staff at Jane Addams High School for Academic Careers in the South Bronx told The Daily News that for the last few years, students who took courses in cosmetology were gi...

A report by the Brookings Institution rates New York No. 1 in the nation when it comes to school choice, finding that it provided the most freedom to students and parents and the most...

Is the state proposing to radically expand the reading tests it gives students from grades 3 to 8, growing them to almost three hours over two days? The Daily News reports that such a...

The suburbs are the breeding ground for a growing rebellion by New York principals against the new system of evaluating teachers. The principals do not object only to the use of stud...

The SAT cheating scandal in Nassau County has grown to 20 arrests and half a dozen schools. Prosecutors said that it began with student rumors, which led school officials to examine i...

A state senator has a suggestion for creating more classroom space in Lower Manhattan, which by all accounts will continue to need it desperately: move the adults out of the Tweed Cou...

As New York City moves toward its first mandated sex education courses in many years, a school in the Philadelphia suburbs embraces a new type of program that embraces the sexual aspe...