Mary Ann Giordano

Help is on the way to Queens Metropolitan High School, where a scheduling problem has inconvenienced students. The problem was discussed at a quiet meeting of the Panel for Educationa...

In the news, a new Queens high school is in a state of confusion over scheduling, with students experiencing changes to their day as many as 10 times since the school year started, Go...

No Child Left Behind waivers, no changes in school lunch nutrition standards and no easy way to choose a high school in New York City are among the topics in the news. And seven city ...

A nonprofit program, Turnaround for Children, is focusing on students' psychological and emotional well-being. In doing so, it "occupies a middle ground between the educators and poli...

In the news, a look into the lives of a homeless child enrolled in the city's schools: N-Dia Layne and her mother, Whitnee Layne, made a valiant attempt to keep N-Dia in the Brooklyn ...

On this Veteran's Day, disappointing news related to the No Child Left Behind law: the number of failing schools in New York State has skyrocketed, with 1,325 of the state’s 4,685 pub...

That cheating scandal on Long Island is now believed to involve as many as 35 students in five high schools, the Nassau County district attorney's office reports. And the cheating acc...

It is already evident that the New York City school system will figure prominently in the race for mayor in 2013, both in terms of policies and in union and other support. But now The...

A study by the American Association of University Women, a nonprofit research organization, found that nearly half of 7th to 12th graders it surveyed said they had experienced sexual harassment in the last school year.

The discipline statistics released by the city's Department of Education are fascinating, and factual nuggets were unearthed in the variety of news reports about them, including the b...

Eva S. Moskowitz is deep into another battle, this time in Brooklyn where she is trying to start one of her Success Academy charter schools in Cobble Hill. Some of the people at Publi...

How do you offer a rich and varied education to children while ensuring that they measure up in standardized tests? That's a challenge for educators in New Hampshire, as well as New Y...

Two months into the school year, and students at Long Island City High School are saying it is just like the first day of school again: all of their schedules have been changed, NY1 reports.

Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott has unveiled a plan to increase parents' involvement in their children's education, proposing creation of a parent academy and greater powers for parent c...

More scrutiny of the city's high school progress reports found that the small high schools created since Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg took over control of the schools did a better job o...

If advocates fulfill their plans, this will be the season of protests, especially at schools that are among those on the city's list of 20 struggling schools targeted for possible clo...

If there is good news to be found in the city's latest progress reports for high schools, and its first public analysis of college readiness of students, it is this: At last the city ...

The 2011 school progress report grades for all New York City public high schools are now on the schools' pages on SchoolBook. A link to the PDF version of the city's report can be fo...

A Silicon Valley school where computers are taboo, and a new way to use technology to help people with autism communicate. A drive at the city's elite schools to provide homework holi...

Some schools are not letting time and space restrictions stifle their efforts to prevent childhood obesity and promote healthy exercise habits in their students. Fernanda Santos write...