When Mayor Bloomberg took charge of New York’s schools, he highlighted wide racial gaps in school achievement as a rationale for reform. A new study finds those disparities persist—and suggests…
Amid the debate over whether small high schools have fixed—or added to—problems with large city high schools, four students at “Tele” are happy to be stuck in the middle.
How do you get today’s high school students engaged in American democracy? One Brooklyn high school math teacher is campaigning to improve civic participation by turning pupils into pollsters.
In the first installment of a year-long series following members of the final graduating class under Michael Bloomberg, we meet two seniors whose high-school careers reflect the impact of…
In the ’60s it was an ambitious experiment in progressive education. Today John Dewey High graduates its final class after being closed as a failing high school. What led the…
Whether Bed-Stuy’s Boys and Girls High School—with its declining enrollment and F ratings—survives is not just a professional concern for Principal Bernard Gassaway. His classroom roots, his former marriage, his…
Education czar Joel Klein’s plan to reorganize several high schools meant for the city’s oldest, most troubled students could slowly squeeze those kinds of kids out of the system altogether.