According to statistics from the Institute of International Education, there were 22,454 Taiwanese students studying in the U.S. in the 2017-2018 school year, a 4.4 percent jump from the previous year.
Yes, the School Diversity Advisory Group called for ending Gifted & Talented programs. But, as a group member and a Council education leader told the Max & Murphy Show, its recommendations don’t start or end there.
Over the last five school years, District 32’s total enrollment has dropped 21 percent. The School Construction Authority’s projections have District 32 shrinking by nearly half over the next decade.
Students at 51 percent of schools citywide head to the lunchroom at 11:00 a.m. or earlier. Where does your child’s school rank? And why is it so hard to feed kids at a normal time?
The segregation of New York City schools is complex, with the system’s four broad racial groups present in at least 12 discernible patterns of singular majority or shared dominance, all of it linked only loosely to the city’s underlying housing segregation
At a recent meeting, parents and students expressed their concern about the effects that the merger may have on the students’ education and even their safety.
The nonprofits that deliver much of the mayor’s signature initiative say the city’s new program structure suffers from multiple flaws—beyond the issue of pay parity.
Reducing racial disparities within the practice of medicine will take work by elementary-school teachers, high-school counselors, college programs, med schools and mentor physicians. But the work starts with letting Black and Latino kids know they have the right to dream.
An orthopedic surgeon tosses pizza dough. An engineer with a doctorate drives for Uber and Lyft. They are among thousands who arrived here with advanced educations but can only find low-skill work.
This is not the first time Gov. Cuomo has proposed a licensing regime for student-loan servicing firms. This year, both the political context and the legal landscape have changed.
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