Yasmeen Khan

Starting Tuesday, the New York Education Department will hold a series of community forums around the city on the Common Core learning standards. If previous events in other parts of ...

With just a few weeks left at the helm, Mayor Michael Bloomberg seized onto state figures that show a record-high four-year graduation rate for New York City students graduating last ...

Teachers from Brooklyn's District 15 decried linking high-stakes decisions and standardized tests.

Although the children who qualified for gifted and talented classes far outnumber seats available this year, some G&T classes are dramatically under-enrolled.

Frustrated families hired a prominent attorney to compile all of their complaints about school bus service in the hope that there's strength in numbers.

Education officials reflected on the strengths and weaknesses of the school progress reports in a policy paper.

After hearing that the state tests for third through eighth graders were too long, officials said they would shorten them. At least a little bit.

Applying to high school in New York City is a major undertaking that requires research and taking stock of one's priorities. "It’s way better than going to a zoned school," a student ...

Education officials say they're talking with the lowest-scoring schools about how to improve, an annual process that in previous years helped the city identify which schools to close....

The city is poised to change if not abolish the tradition of A to F letter grades.

Parents now have until Sunday to register their pre-K through second-grade children online for the assessment to get into one of the city's coveted gifted and talented programs. Famil...

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio repeated his campaign promise to expand early childhood education immediately after winning the mayor's race,  in his victory speech and in his transition t...

In a rare move, the diocese of Brooklyn is suing one of its own Catholic high schools. The diocese said the school allegedly violated its contract by renting space inside its building...

The number of students suspended from school dropped by more than 20 percent last year. But racial and other disparities remain.

As his term comes to an end, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is on a new-school tear. He won approval to open another 15 schools and place others in existing school buildings at a meeting Wed...

As another round of proposals to co-locate schools comes up for a vote, WNYC gets inside a school to find out what it means exactly for multiple schools to share a building.

A new analysis from the New York Civil Liberties Union shows an overlap between students coming in contact with stop-and-frisk police tactics and school suspensions. 

Students say things have returned back to normal, as much as they can.

President Obama came to Brooklyn to pressure Congress to act on the budget and celebrate the model of P-Tech, a six-year high school. 

A new school-based health clinic opened in the Bronx on Monday, the first of seven set to open this school year. Principals welcomed the clinic to their campus where many students suf...