The president of the College Board defends the role of non-fiction reading in Common Core curricula in an in-depth conversation with radio host Kurt Andersen. He insists fiction will not get short shrift under the new guidelines.

Here’s a deeper dive into the grades and scores released Monday afternoon for the city’s 500-plus high schools. Listen to our analysis and read how other media outlets covered the release of the high school progress reports for the 2011-12 school year.

Not everyone was pleased to hear that the public schools’ February break would be cut short to make up days lost to Sandy but most people acknowledged the D.O.E. didn’t have many other options.

Schoolbook carried video coverage of a WNET-sponsored forum on school leadership moderated by SchoolBook’s own Beth Fertig. School principals, experts and Tweed officials weighed in on what it takes to lead a successful school.

A principal’s heartfelt account of the early response and relocation of his school after Sandy drew praise, especially from inside the school’s community.

A psychologist and author argues that schoolchildren need to be “eco-literate” so they understand complex environmental issues and make smart decisions for the future.

The 2012 school grades are now on our pages for all elementary and middle schools. The updated information is one of many data points on SchoolBook to help you compare and evaluate schools. Check it out.

New mandated healthy lunches are proving unpopular in school cafeterias around the country. Students are pitching their salads and are complaining they’re left feeling hungry. Brian Lehrer opens the phones on this always controversial subject.

Data on student discharges from both charter and district schools revealed lots of movement in the city’s epicenter of school choice: Harlem. SchoolBook’s analysis sparked debate over dumping and attrition, and it is still going. Join the conversation.

Chester Finn Jr., a former assistant secretary of education and co-author of “Exam Schools: Inside America’s Most Selective High Schools,” says he wishes more could be done for the country’s brightest students before they hit the ninth grade.