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Magnet and Charter Schools Jostle Over Space

Monday, June 11, 2012

A plan to put 150 fifth graders from Harlem Success Academy 2 and 3 into the building that houses P.S. 208 has pitted supporters of the magnet school against advocates of the charter ...
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Charter vs. Charter in a Shared Harlem Building

Monday, June 11, 2012

In the recent past, most of the contentious battles over school space in the city have erupted when a charter school has tried to share the same floor with a traditional public school...
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Teachers: Arne Duncan Wants to Hear From You

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

The education secretary is on Twitter, asking teachers: What is one positive lesson you learned from another teacher this year? #teachtalk

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Sitting on the Other Side of the Desk

Wednesday, June 06, 2012

Teachers training teachers is a common practice at Urban Assembly, a public school in the South Bronx. Teachers almost always complete tasks such as lesson planning and curriculum dev...
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How to Run a High-Tech High School

Tuesday, June 05, 2012

Apps for taking attendance and scheduling tutoring? That's what goes on at the Academy for Careers in Television and Film in Queens. Columbia journalism students looked at "life in an...
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No Room to Play

Thursday, May 31, 2012

At P.S. 24 in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 54 percent of students are overweight or obese and P.E. classes are a weekly activity. Limited space means that only half of the students at the ...
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A Teacher's Aide, Accused of Sexual Abuse, Waits for Justice

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Hany Abdalla, a teacher’s aide at Public School 84 on West 92nd Street, was arrested in April and accused of sexually abusing an 8-year-old special education student. The Education De...
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Life in the SAVE Room, and Other Tales of Suspensions

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Omar White is 12 years old, bright and horribly behind in his classes at Cornerstone Academy for Social Action Middle School in the Bronx. That is because he spends most of the time out of his class.

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Students Complain About New Dress Code at Stuyvesant

Friday, May 25, 2012

Stuyvesant High School imposed a new dress code this year because school officials thought students were making wardrobe choices that they did not think "were appropriate for school....
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Brooklyn School Reverses Decision to Give Out Condoms at Prom

Friday, May 25, 2012

The principal at Bedford-Stuyvesant Preparatory High School had said his school passed out condoms in its sex-education program, so it would make them available at prom night too.

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Social Causes, Served Cafeteria-Style

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

It’s not every day that students are encouraged to deface school property. But on Tuesday in Union Square, Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott helped a few hundred middle-school students unv...
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Remembering a Murrow H.S. Student Named Adam Yauch

Thursday, May 10, 2012

When Adam Yauch, one of the founding members of the Beastie Boys, died of cancer last week, one of the people who mourned him was his English teacher at Edward R. Murrow High School, ...
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At East Side Community, a Stand Against Racial Profiling

Tuesday, May 08, 2012

SchoolBook holds its first teach-in Tuesday about "How to Bring Tough Conversations Into the Classroom." Meanwhile, East Side Community School on the Lower East Side figured out a way...
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For Cardozo Students, a Broad Menu of Lunchtime Possibilities

Monday, May 07, 2012

In elementary and middle school, lunch is guaranteed and programmed into every student’s schedule. In high school, because of scheduling conflicts, or other reasons, not every student...
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Is New Sex-Education Course Too Much or Just Enough?

Wednesday, May 02, 2012

In an article in The East Sider, her student newspaper, an 11th grader at East Side Community High School writes that the city's new mandatory sex education course, which began in Jan...
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New Social Media Policy Restricts Teacher-Student Contact

Tuesday, May 01, 2012

With allegations of inappropriate interactions between school staff and students on the rise -- and many of those interactions initiated on social media -- the city's Department of Ed...
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Kids Draw the News | Send Pictures

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

City Room has begun a new feature called Kids Draw the News, in which it asks students to submit their renderings of a current event. Today’s dramatic (though controversial) assignmen...
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City Revokes Testing Word Ban

Monday, April 02, 2012

Why should pressure groups who won battles a generation ago in other states and regions determine what appears on the tests of New York City? New York City Department of Education off...
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For a Bronx Student, Home Is Poetry

Monday, April 02, 2012

What is it like for a young girl to be uprooted from her home and sent to a new country? A poem by a Bronx high school student evokes sadness, loss and yearning. We publish it here be...
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Shrinking School Budgets Have Parents Filling the Gaps

Friday, March 23, 2012

Parents who are responding to a SchoolBook survey are ticking off their expenses: Overnight trips. After-school programs. School photos. And of course glue sticks and disinfecting wip...
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