Mary Ann Giordano appears in the following:
An 'Historic' Agreement Over Assessing Teachers
Friday, February 17, 2012
A deal over teacher and principal evaluations was announced with much fanfare, but the question of the 33 schools in need of improvement lingers. And another school employee was charg...
Is a Teacher Evaluation System Deal Close?
Thursday, February 16, 2012
Local TV reporters were already camped out outside the governor's office on Thursday, the deadline for a deal over a new state teacher evaluation system. The state's talks with New Yo...
Affluent New York Parents Born Abroad Prefer Public Schools
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
The Times reports on Wednesday that, of the roughly 15,500 households in the city with school-age children where the total income is at least $150,000 and both parents were born abroa...
Some Charters Impose Earlier Kindergarten Cutoff Dates
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
If your child has a birthday after Aug. 31, he or she might be ineligible for kindergarten in some city charter schools, The Post reports -- a policy of the charters that is tolerated...
At One Lower East Side School, Kids Get Out to Get Ahead
Monday, February 13, 2012
Educators at Public School 142 Amalia Castro on the Lower East Side are turning the world around the school into a living laboratory for its littlest students, with the goal of introd...
A New Worry for Educators: The Income Divide
Friday, February 10, 2012
The focus of educators in recent years has been on closing racial and ethnic gaps -- and the efforts appear to have had some success. But now comes news that the achievement gap betw...
Something to Say? We've Made It Simpler
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Conversation — along with news and data — is one of the three key pillars of SchoolBook, and we wanted to do everything we could to make it flourish. So we have added open-ended comme...
Cobble Hill Parents Sue to Block Success Academy 3
Thursday, February 09, 2012
Eva Moskowitz and her Success Academy charter schools are in the news on Thursday, again as the target of a lawsuit to try to stop her from establishing a new school, this time in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn.
Bloomberg Poll: Like the Ideas, Not the Execution
Wednesday, February 08, 2012
A new poll released Wednesday found that only 24 percent of New York voters considered mayoral control of the schools a success, while 57 percent said it was a failure. The voters st...
Will Giants Fever Strike at City Schools?
Tuesday, February 07, 2012
The parade and tribute to the Giants' Super Bowl victory is likely to draw thousands of students -- and maybe a few teachers? -- to the celebration in Lower Manhattan, and though ever...
Reeding and Riting That XPlane Why Stoodents Are Not College Ready
Monday, February 06, 2012
In the news on Monday, Michael Winerip's On Education column in The New York Times, and accompanying examples of student writing for the English Regents exam, will have you, as he wr...
Will New York's Large High Schools Survive?
Thursday, February 02, 2012
Can you blame them? After last week's study showing that student achievement is higher in the city's new, small high schools -- and city officials reiterated their commitment to a pol...
Case Against Reassigned Teacher Was Botched, Post Reports
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
In the news on Wednesday, the tabloids continue to have a field day with the case of a teacher who has collected his $100,000-a-year salary for a decade while assigned to "rubber room...
City Publishes New Elementary School Directory
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Helpful news out of the city's Education Department: It has released a directory of all elementary school programs in the public schools, just in time to help parents who are register...
Private School Tuition in New York City 'Higher Than Harvard's'
Monday, January 30, 2012
Private school tuition rates have been on the rise in the city -- so much so that the annual tuition is hovering on the brink of $40,000 a year, even for the lowest grades. That means...
At Chelsea Career H.S., Worries About How to Get the Job Done
Friday, January 27, 2012
With $58 million in federal grant money still in suspension until the city can reach a deal on a teacher evaluation system for its struggling schools, the principal at Chelsea Career...
New Study Gives Small Schools Initiative a Thumbs Up
Thursday, January 26, 2012
UPDATED | The small schools initiative that has been the hallmark of the Bloomberg administration's schools policy seems to be working, a new study has found. The study, which is bein...
Obama Praises Teachers and Calls for Mandatory Attendance
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Should students be required to remain in school until age 18? That was the one concrete proposal for K-12 students in President Barack Obama's State of the Union speech on Tuesday nig...
New Teachers Union Ad Takes Aim at Bloomberg
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
A solemn, 30-second political-style television advertisement by the United Federation of Teachers will start running on Tuesday, saying that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg "still doesn't ...
A Focus on Teachers and Teaching
Monday, January 23, 2012
UPDATED | Teachers, teachers, teachers. This was the focus of the education news in the city this weekend, from reports that the state is closer to an evaluation system to a touching ...