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Shooting at CT Elementary School Kills 20 Children

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A tragic shooting by a gunman leaves scores dead at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, about 60 miles northeast of New York City. It appears to be the nation’s second-deadliest school shooting, exceeded only by the Virginia Tech massacre in 2007. Read More »

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Class Sizes Data Shows Slight Increase

The city said average class sizes increased by 1.6 percent this fall, with the biggest jump seen in first grade. The overall student-teacher ratio for both general education and inclusion classes decreased by 1.4 students per teacher, according to the latest class size data released by the D.O.E. Read More »

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Two experts weigh in on how to discuss Friday’s mass school shooting with children. The primary concern, they said, is to emphasize to young people that they are safe. Read More »

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Using Hip Hop to Develop Young Scientists

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A professor and a hip hop icon have teamed up to help high school students use popular music techniques like rhyme and keen observation to communicate science concepts. The idea is to let students be brilliant about a topic, and to express complex ideas in a way they enjoy. The project will culminate in a musical showdown this spring. Read More »

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City Teachers Pledge $1B in Sandy Rebuilding

New York City’s teachers’ pension fund will put $1 billion towards financing construction and repair projects for city roads, bridges, and homes, President Bill Clinton among others announced the unusual arrangement on Thursday. Read More »

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On WNYC: Charter Schools and Attrition

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Reporter Beth Fertig reviews the findings of her Charters & Choices series on The Brian Lehrer Show. DOE data showed that charters have overall lower attrition rates than district schools but the debate remains open - and heated - about what kind of students attend charters and who is most likely to leave. Read More »

Brooklyn Charter Dials Back Discipline After Outcry

In our series on charter schools we’ve examined the role of discipline. Critics say charters with strict rules unfairly push out students or fail to communicate with families well. One school in Bedford Stuyvesant lost almost one of five of its students when parents thought its detention and disciplinary rules went too far. It has since toned down its approach. Read More »

Schools on the city's "early engagement" list have finished up their meetings with education officials. They now wait to see which schools the Education Department will propose for phase-out. SchoolBook spent time at the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School which is facing possible closure for the second year in a row. Read More »

Nearly 100,000 Americans suffer from the blood disorder sickle cell anemia, a painful disease that shortens life-expectancy. Sickle cells aren’t round – they’re shaped like a crescent moon - and Radio Rookie Bree Person hates looking at them. She hates talking about them too. But Pearson, a student at Washington Irving High School, decided she wanted more people to understand the illness. Hear her report and an interview with a pediatrician at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore. Read More »

College students from the New York Institute of Technology volunteered at a Harlem elementary school this fall as a kind of in-house tech squad, and resident experts for science classes. Read More » How would you rate science and technology education at your school?

 

Rainiel Baez moved to New York City from the Dominican Republic for his senior year of high school. In our ongoing series on the college application process, he shares this postcard on what it's like to navigate so many new things at once. Read More »

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