Mary Ann Giordano

With the federal No Child Left Behind Act under scrutiny, American employers lamenting the lack of skilled workers and so many states and school districts struggling with shrinking bu...

With motivations that include inflating the statistics used to evaluate a school and helping favored students become eligible to graduate, educators in New York City found a variety o...

A neglected segment of the city school population, English language learners, finally received some attention Wednesday, with the state's announcement of the city's 31-page plan to im...

Even as the data collected around schools in New York City have revealed flickers of improvement, one statistic has been persistently discouraging: the lack of black and Hispanic stud...

Did state education officials' failure to read all the tabs on an Excel spreadsheet lead to the low count of violent episodes in New York City schools? State officials concede that th...

Trying to find the digital solution that will help students pick up math and reading as quickly as they do the latest online game, districts and schools are spending $2.2 billion a ye...

Changes made this summer to the way unassigned teachers are deployed has created confusion, GothamSchools reports. Teachers are complaining that the deal between the teachers' union a...

It wasn’t the first day of school, but it was certainly a new beginning for Hyde Leadership Charter School, in the first new education facility in Hunts Point in more than 30 years. T...

A new study raises fresh questions about a familiar issue: Are we giving top students short shrift? Yes, it is the old debate over tracking, and in light of the study's finding that t...

Four of the borough presidents and the city's public advocate are recommending that community education council elections be run by an outside group and that parents be allowed to vot...

With the layoffs of 716 school aides and parent coordinators appearing more and more likely by the end of the week, an analysis shows that many districts will have no layoffs while sc...

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