In hundreds of schools, testing companies are trying out questions for future state exams. According to Fred Smith, this ineffective way to gauge the quality of test questions, accomplished without…
The effort to compel the DOE to release the information is part of a years’ long effort by the Community Education Council of District 2 to turn what is often…
The question isn’t just whether the mayor’s plan will work. It’s whether it will work in time to satisfy critics who are suddenly skeptical of mayoral control.
School officials have talked for years about improving special education. The de Blasio administration is trying a new approach. Does it go deep enough?