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Students in fourth and eighth grade at New York City schools scored slightly lower on federal math tests this year compared with 2009, according to scores released Wednesday morning, ...

The city has set a February deadline for about 60 churches that had been holding services in city schools pending the appeal. The announcement followed a decision by the United States...

UPDATED | A student at a Bronx public high school pepper-sprayed at least 14 people, including students and the principal, in the cafeteria and hallway Monday afternoon, the authorities said.

Almost 100 more principals have signed a letter of protest about a new state evaluation system that will rate teachers and principals based on student scores on standardized tests. Th...

Hear how a school in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, tackles the challenge of a Spanish-English dual language curriculum in this podcast from Feet in Two Worlds.

As more students across the country are signing up for free or reduced lunches because of the ailing economy, in New York City, principals are trying to collect lunch money from those...

More than 650 principals across New York State have signed a petition objecting to the new state system to evaluate teachers and principals based on student testing. SchoolBook asked ...

Principals across New York State who object to the new state system to evaluate teachers and principals based on student testing have begun circulating a petition against it. A few of...

Answering questions from readers on how to find a good school, Peg Tyre, journalist and author, deals with the tricky matter of teacher turnover and what to look for in a principal.

In a city of so many races, religions and ethnic groups, Thanksgiving menus are as varied as the people here. As well they should be! The students at Public School 56 Lewis H. Latimer...

At another school, it might have been a football rally. At Bronx Prep Charter School on Friday, it only looked like one. Seniors, many of them wearing college sweatshirts, marched out...

Edward R. Murrow High School lost four members of its staff to the budget cuts that hit schools all over the city last month. Reporters for the student newspaper talked with them about losing their jobs.

Amy Gutmann, president of the University of Pennsylvania, visited Eleanor Roosevelt High School, where she talked with 200 high school juniors and seniors about the college applicatio...

Merryl H. Tisch, chancellor of the New York State Board of Regents, says she is not interested in running for mayor, despite the buzz that has circulated in recent weeks about her as ...

Getting a new school playground is certainly something worth celebrating. So local officials, parents, staff members and students at Public School 9 and Middle School 571, at 80 Under...

The ban jeopardizes safety. The devices are useful for learning. The ironclad rule is an insult to students. It forces students to be sneaks. It discriminates. And it punishes all for...

The treasurer of an elementary school PTA in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, pleaded guilty to theft charges and agreed to pay back all the money she embezzled. She started by handing over a...

This American Life, the popular radio show, takes a look at middle school life. The host, Ira Glass, interviews a 14-year old named Annie, who gave the producers the idea to do a prog...

High schools in all five boroughs were auditioning for the attention of eighth graders who are about to make one of the biggest decisions of their lives: selecting the high schools th...

More than 30 male students at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Brooklyn are living in a dorm, as part of a program to motivate students who might otherwise not succeed in school.