The NYPost has an article about the rising pregnancy rate of out of wed-lock couples, mainly through teen pregnancy. An old business adage holds that when you can’t solve a problem, make it bigger and look for a comprehensive fix. Gov. Cuomo followed that advice with his...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the DOE's new rules on social media and how teacher and student interact. New York City on Monday issued its first guidelines for the use of social media in schools, stopping short of an outright ban but warning teachers to keep a...
In what is possibly the worst move the United Federation Of Teachers can do, NY1 implies that the UFT might not help teachers find new placements in turn around/closing schools. This causes a higher competition rate and wage cutting tactics to get teachers in our...
The city Department of Education’s proposed solutions to this year’s Downtown kindergarten wait lists were shot down by local parents and education activists at Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver’s Overcrowding Task Force on Monday. The number of students wait-listed at...
NY1 has the story about the Teacher's Union fight with the city and the school closings. The Panel for Educational Policy is expected to vote Thursday night on whether the city can use a federal strategy called "turnaround" to shut down and then improve 26 failing public...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about the new teacher evaluations and how they apply to special education teachers. Special education teachers under the new teacher evaluation system have everything going against them, which begs the question, how do we evaluate the...
NJSpotlight has an article about the new superintendent and during a cash strapped economy, given a six digit salary Almost one year into the job, Newark superintendent Cami Anderson and the Christie administration have inked a contract that will pay her $247,500 for this and...
New York is in a tizzle about about the now infamous pineapple question. Students are in an 'outcry' over a confusing test question about a pineapple, however most teachers say it's fair and square. Recently, the state exam has exempt all non-scenario specific questions to...
The Wall Street Journal has an article about how NYC is reviewing one of it's toughest test and whether or not it should be optional for graduation The Board of Regents next week will consider state Education Department recommendations to make the global history and geography...
Huffington Post has an article about how kindergarten has become the newest grade to have long wait lists From the federal government to school boards, policymakers and administrators are increasingly setting their sights on "college and career readiness" as the goal of K-12...
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