The culture of business reshapes the world of education, in Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Schools Chancellor Joel Klein’s Children First reform efforts. If the news is as good as city leaders say, why are so many people worried?
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More than 30,000 students a year take the entry exam for the city’s prestigious “specialized” high schools. About 5,000 earn offers of admission. Why do these students’ ethnic and demographic makeup differ so dramatically from the balance of the city’s students? And why won’t the Department of Education permit evaluation of potential […]
Spend January 20, 2009 at the International High School at Lafayette, an all-immigrant high school in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, with students from more countries than the US has states.
Story and images at City Limits weekly.
The New York City Leadership Academy trains untested principals to take over, and turn around, struggling city schools.
Sandra Stein, CEO of the Leadership Academy, defends the reinterpretation of business practices for the education-leadership environment, in this question-and-answer featured in City Limits weekly.
The first round of Department of Education Progress Reports incited hot debate, in the City Council chamber and elsewhere, about how to define “progress” — and whether it’s possible to grade the city’s schools based on standardized test scores.
Read about a contentious hearing (and a beat-it-quick, side-door exit by the DOE’s accountability czar […]
New York City’s School Safety Agents are charged with school security — but are not under the direct supervision of the NYPD, which hires them, or school personnel, whose buildings and communities they serve. The New York Civil Liberties Union’s School Safety Act aims to address the accountability gap — but hasn’t yet been passed […]
In 1973, the National Committee on Excellence in Education’s report “A Nation at Risk” famously described “a rising tide of mediocrity” in America’s schools. A quarter-century later, the tide hasn’t fallen: Only 70 percent of the nation’s high-school students — and at best, 60 percent of New York City high-schoolers — are graduating. […]
Cost-conscious NYC Department of Education purchasing requirements mean that local publishers — including minority- and women-owned businesses who’ve worked with the DOE for a quarter-century or more — are prohibited from doing business with the DOE. Local laws, which govern city agencies, don’t pertain, because the DOE is neither fish nor fowl — neither a […]