Economy
WorkSite Video: Finding Work for the Hard-to-Place
Melissa Rose Cooper |
An improving job market looks less inviting to those with little education or an inconsistent work history. But there are ways to navigate around those obstacles.
activism
Who Exactly is the New York City Parents Union?
Ruth Ford |
The organization is involved in major lawsuits and lights up tabloid op-ed pages with criticisms of unions, elected officials, Chancellor Fariña and others. But their funding and membership are fuzzy.
arts
Do Students Need to Learn Art to Succeed at Science?
Patrick Donachie |
City Limits’ series on summer learning continues with a look at a Brooklyn program where learning to excel at science, technology, engineering and math involves learning—among other things—how to yelp.
Education
Groups Scramble to Fight Students’ Literacy Slip Over Summer Break
Patrick Donachie |
From distributing books in barbershops to recruiting a giant-sized Dora to explore the steps of City Hall, advocates and experts are trying to match inadequate public resources to the serious problem of summer break literacy losses.
Education
De Blasio’s Education Agenda Takes Shape at Renewal Schools
Jessica Siegel |
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.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Op-ed: NY’s Graduation Exams are Failing Our Students
Christian Villenas |
The Regents system of exit exams makes New York about the toughest state in which to graduate high school. Nearly a quarter of students don’t graduate on time, a high price to pay given the lack of evidence that a single, standardized test fairly or accurately measures what young people have learned.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
CityViews: NYC Students’ Field Exams Fail the Logic Test
Fred Smith |
To prepare questions for future state exams, testing companies will soon administer so-called field tests to city students. But this op-ed asks: how are these no-pressure, no-prep exams a valid proving ground for questions that will count next year?
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
NY’s Prisoners Need Tuition Assistance. So Do You.
Gustavo Rivera |
Continuing a Pataki-era ban on prison inmates receiving TAP funding doesn’t just hurt the prisoners, a state senator argues. It also harms the communities they return to when their sentence is up.
Charter Schools
Hartford-to-Harlem Charter School Faces Critics Back Home
John Spina |
A Capital Preparatory Charter School will open soon in Harlem ,promising to deliver the same kind of success its founder, Steve Perry, found in Hartford. But it’s unclear whether the Connecticut school is serving the underprivileged population it will encounter in New York.
CITY VIEWS: OPINIONS and ANALYSIS
Pol: Schools Need State Help, Not Sensational Headlines
Gustavo Rivera |
A Bronx legislator responds to coverage that linked him to the high number of failing schools in his district. Ignoring social factors or state funding won’t solve the problem, he warns.
