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The dismissal of a popular but controversial teacher at the private Ethical Culture Fieldston School, which prompted an outcry from students, parents and teachers, has raised sensitiv...

Nightingale-Bamford, one of the city’s top all-girls’ private schools, on Tuesday named Paul A. Burke, the current head of the upper school, to be its seventh leader. Mr. Burke posed ...

Students at Stuyvesant High School write that cheating on SAT's is doable and done, partly because of the pressure students feel about the test and the lack of repercussions for disho...

Philip Garber Jr. asked questions in class. His teacher asked him not to. Readers had a lot of questions, and suggestions, about balancing an individual student's rights and the needs...

Students from La Scuola d’Italia Guglielmo Marconi,a private school with campuses on East 96th Street and East 67th Street, marched up Fifth Avenue today, as part of the annual Columbus Day festivities.

Students and teachers at Junior High School 127 in the Bronx sent more than 60 e-mails to the Department of Education on Wednesday to protest a block on personal blogs and social med...

The importance of resilience, curiosity about introverts and requests for additional information are among the final questions posed about character education to Dominic Randolph of R...

The effectiveness of character education, the issue of whether to focus on the top five character strengths or the bottom five, and a request for examples of how the characteristics f...

The principal of the Bronx High School of Science has responded to questions about the turnover of faculty at the prestigious high school, sending out a message that any "teacher hara...

Your school’s 2011 Progress Report grade is now available on its SchoolBook page. The new grades have been added to the pages for all elementary and middle schools that were assessed this year.

One ties the progress reports to student gains. Another says they can be deceiving. A third says they should not be the only source of information about a school. And a fourth says th...

Nine students at Millenium Art Academy in the Bronx were hit with mace when a school safety officer used it to try to break up a fight. The nine were bystanders, the police said.

A new report from the Census Bureau shows that 75,000 city residents were pushed into poverty from 2009 to 2010, increasing the poor population to more than 1.6 million and raising th...

The Smart Scholars Early College High School Initiative pairs Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus with Boys and Girls High School in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, creating a rig...

Personal stories as told by middle school students trying to learn English are being recorded as part of an innovative program at five city middle schools.

The heads of KIPP New York and Riverdale Country School answer reader questions on their innovative character education programs, including the experience of working together, the sci...

There's a little more Hermione and a little less Snooki in teenagers' closets this fall. As they get dressed for school, many girls have decided to put aside tight dresses and cutoff ...

Ask the superintendent of KIPP and the headmaster of Riverdale about their efforts to teach character.

The police department today made an arrest and named two more suspects in the shooting death of Tayshana Murphy, a senior and star basketball player at Murry Bergtraum High School for Business Careers.

Nearly 3.1 million New Yorkers were living below the official poverty rate in 2010, also the highest total in 12 years, Sam Roberts reports on City Room today.