Maria Newman

The percentage of New York City students graduating from public high schools within four years was flat in 2011 compared with the year before, marking the first time the rate has not ...

In his last On Education column, Michael Winerip of The New York Times writes about a grading snafu in Florida's state standardized tests. Since the early 1990s, he has written about ...

The New York Times Magazine article about the Horace Mann School has drawn hundreds of comments from readers moved by its description of sexual abuse that took place there during the ...

There is no school today because of Brooklyn-Queens Day, but some parents are out marching and protesting what they call an over-emphasis on testing.

The city is paying contractors more than $1 billion this year for a special education that serves 25,000 3- and 4-year-olds with physical, learning, developmental and other disabilit...

Arvind Mahankali, a seventh grader at Junior High School 74 in Queens, has placed third in the National Spelling Bee two years in a row. On Monday, Schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walco...

At a time of severe education budget cuts, some schools in New York City have thrived, thanks to the hard work of PTAs that are raising in the neighborhood of $1 million a year.

Rashid F. Davis is principal of Pathways in Technology Early College High School, a new school that opened in Brooklyn with a unique six-year plan that offers students a high school d...

Elizabeth Phillips, the principal of Public School 321 in Brooklyn, has been an outspoken critic of the state exams for elementary school children and the teacher data reports. Ms. Ph...

Sharon Emick Fougner, principal of Elizabeth Mellick Baker Elementary School in Great Neck, Long Island, urged the state education commissioner to conduct a review of the math exams t...

At a City Council hearing, advocates and city officials criticized the schools for relying too much on the police and hospitals to cope with troubled children.

After earning an A in two progress reports, last year P.S. 112 in the northern section of the Bronx fell to a D, setting off fears among students and parents that the school would be ...

Forest Hills High School has more than 3,800 students, 12 assistant principals and 195 teachers. Despite its size and crowding issues, it has earned an A on its progress report three ...

The principal of Public School 186 in Bensonhurst roams the halls of her large school constantly, giving feedback and cheering on students and teachers as they work hard to do well on...

Many students at East Side Community High School on East 12th Street in Manhattan enter the 6-12 school performing below grade level. Yet somehow 90 percent of graduates go on to coll...

Some teachers said they worried that the public release of individual teacher data was going to lead to fights over high-performing students, and to the neglect of those who most need...

'It is very important for me to constantly look for opportunities in which people are looking to support public education,' said Edward Tom in the latest interview for Principal's Of...

Teachers throughout the city have been objecting to the public release on Friday of individual teacher performance rankings. Some listed complaints. Others wanted to explain why they ...

Jim Manly, 45, is the longest serving principal, or school leader, of the Success Academy Charter Schools, which started in 2006 and by next year could be operating a dozen schools th...

After weeks of hearings, many of them emotionally wrenching, the Panel for Educational Policy will decide Thursday night which schools in the city they will close -- partially or entirely -- for academic failure.