- After a rough start at public elementary schools, a novelist found her place at Hunter College HS.
- City Limits looks at Bloomberg’s cash rewards program and its unclear future.
- A Bronx charter school student’s mother claims the school hasn’t provided needed special ed services.
- Analyzing charter schools’ transfer rates, Kim Gittleson finds they go down as schools grow up.
- James Merriman suggests questions he thinks should have been asked at the Perkins charter hearings.
- Charter advocate Peter Murphy responds to the state teachers union’s report on charter schools.
- InsideSchools reports that six percent of the city’s 9th graders applied to different high schools.
- The NYTimes’ Robert Gebeloff answers more questions about the state tests and students’ results.
- Madonna and Gwyneth Paltrow attended a benefit for a program that brings yoga into NYC public schools.
- Improving the school calendar could cut down on teacher absenteeism, Forrest Hinton writes.
- A teacher questions the wisdom of the city’s new strategy for educating kids with special needs.
- A New Jersey principal is asking his middle schoolers’ parents to ban social networking sites at home.
- Rated unsatisfactory three times, a teacher believes he’s kept in the school as an example.
- If Chancellor Joel Klein were to leave his job, very little would change, writes a UFT member.
- And Ugandan schoolchildren answer how they would spend $50, the cost of a year’s tuition there.