Young men hope to be champions. Nonprofits dream of creating an urban Nirvana. In the gritty Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, a different kind of skirmish is playing out.
Take dismal public schools. Add prosperous parents. Shake up. Is a new recipe for revitalizing the city’s education system being written in Riverdale, Park Slope and the Upper East Side?
The nation’s school testing frenzy is failing qualified minority teachers, with little proof that high scores on certification exams have anything to do with good teaching.
Her boyfriend beat her so badly she had to be hospitalized. Then the city took her kids because of it. Meet the mom who’s turning a legal fight into a…
