Maria Newman appears in the following:
Brett Kimmel: Create a 'To-Die-For' Place
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Brett Kimmel was interested in school reform and decided the best way to change schools was to become a teacher. Then he was interested in creating a place where teachers would crave ...
Mr. Bogin of Moscow Meets New York's Schools
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Vasiliy Bogin, the director of a private Moscow school, hovered over first graders at P.S. 321 who were engaged in a writing lesson, and met with a variety of education officials duri...
Bill Would Create School Holiday for Lunar New Year
Monday, January 23, 2012
San Francisco school children have the day off. So do students in Tenafly, N.J. It's the Lunar New Year, and two New York state legislators say that with more than 15 percent of city ...
Cheryl Tyler: Something Worth Fighting For
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
When students and teachers at Public School 277 in the Bronx learned in December that the school would not be closed down, even though it received an F in its progress report, “you c...
Mayor's Address Will Highlight Small Schools Initiative
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
When Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg delivers his state of the city speech on Thursday, he will do so from a public school. Four schools, to be exact. The mayor will speak from the Morris ...
Vasthi Acosta: Give Students a Taste of Excellence
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
A veteran of the public schools who is now principal at a charter school -- and who home schooled her own children -- asks: 'Why can’t we have all different avenues for parents to edu...
Julie Conason: Learning Through Relationships
Monday, November 28, 2011
The principal of one of the smallest high schools in the city, Humanities Preparatory Academy in Chelsea, embraced the opportunity to lead a school that does not "live and die by the ...
Sheldon Benardo: The Accidental Principal
Monday, November 14, 2011
Sheldon Benardo became the principal of a 2,300-student school in the Bronx because his brother had connections to the superintendent. But he has grown into the job, and Public School...
Bronx Students to Paris: Here We Come!
Thursday, November 10, 2011
Fifth and sixth graders from Public School 86 in the Bronx will leave on Friday with their teachers for a trip to Paris, Amsterdam and Brussels, and 10 days of history, art and cultur...
Sara Stone and Allison Keil: Building Relationships
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Two former teachers who formed a charter elementary school in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, say they learned some lessons about what makes a strong school community, especially when they tri...
Maria Velez-Clarke: How Do We Catch the B Train?
Thursday, October 06, 2011
Maria Velez-Clarke, principal at the Children’s Workshop School in the East Village, reflected on how her school, which has 225 students, was founded on the principle of collaborative...
Mark Dunetz: Inefficiencies Distract From the Teaching Mission
Monday, September 19, 2011
Systems have improved, but questions like how many phone calls, e-mails, offices, paper and electronic forms are involved in getting a person who has been offered a job onto the payro...
Behind the Scenes with Spike Lee’s 9/11 Tribute
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
Children from several New York public schools were part of Spike Lee's State Farm tribute to 9/11. Here's how it happened.
The High School Choice Process Has Begun
Tuesday, September 06, 2011
While in other parts of the country rising eighth graders focused on fun and relaxation during their summer months, in New York City these young people were gearing up for one of the ...
‘Class Warfare’ Ignites Class Debate
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Criticism and debate have followed the publication of Steven Brill's “Class Warfare: Inside the Fight to Fix America’s Schools," arguably the back-to-school book of the year.
Martha Polin: Leave Students Wanting More
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
‘I want the teachers here to make a serial with a cliff hanger everyday so that the kids want to come back everyday,' says Martha Polin, the principal of Lower East Side Preparatory H...