Maria Newman

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 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...

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...

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, 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...

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...

Children from several New York public schools were part of Spike Lee's State Farm tribute to 9/11. Here's how it happened.

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 ...

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.

‘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...