Curriculum and instruction
While most major U.S. school districts are already back in session, New York City students don’t return until Sept. 10. The late start leaves working parents struggling to cover weeks of costly childcare gaps.
As New York City marks 25 years since Sept. 11, Chalkbeat wants to hear how local educators approach this history in their classrooms. Share your lesson plans, teaching strategies, and memories with us.
After streamlining its annual survey to get clearer, more direct answers, NYC got feedback from more than 357,000 students. Here are key takeaways from the newest questions.
“I viewed a lot of stuff about Texas and Houston and San Antonio and migrant workers, and Texas and Texas,” said one school board member.
At Voyages Prep in Elmhurst, students found purpose and accountability through a hands-on project to renovate a playground. Their effort won $50,000 and changed how they viewed their own potential.
“Our schools will not use the curriculum as a vehicle for religious instruction,” wrote Eddie Ramirez, superintendent of the Montezuma-Cortez district.
The steep declines come as NYC enters the fourth year of its literacy overhaul. City officials say the results, which nearly wiped out last year’s gains, raise questions and require further analysis.
The Bluebonnet curriculum has drawn fierce criticism from some Texas parents and religious scholars.
School district officials say they’re expanding access for students who can handle the advanced math class. But elected officials are impatient for change.
The rise of AI-generated materials is testing educators’ trust in Teachers Pay Teachers, which has long been at the center of debates about curriculum quality.
The mandate was first introduced as part of Eric Adams’ NYC Reads curriculum overhaul. Early childhood programs can now apply to use other options.
Schools can block gambling and sports betting websites, but financial literacy teachers say it is much harder to counter sports betting’s growing appeal to teenage boys.
At the Virtual Innovators Academy, NYC science teacher Jude Julien reaches students who struggled in traditional classrooms. Now he’s won Math for America’s prestigious Muller Award for his work.
FLAG Award winner Rayhan Ahmed ditches traditional exams for real-world fieldwork, taking his students to Flint, Michigan, and Washington, D.C., to learn the human stories behind climate and environmental issues.
Researchers hope their analysis — which aligns with a large body of research on inequality — serves as a call for action rather than despair.
Supporters say integrated math allows for a variety of STEM pathways in high school, but there are tradeoffs.
Amid rising concerns about bullying and harassment, a New York City program is betting on student-led workshops and cross-cultural visits to counter identity-based bullying and harassment.
A parent-led initiative in Manhattan’s District 6 is getting 38 elementary and middle schools to swap devices for community activities and outdoor play.
I-Ready is one of the country’s most widely used education technology tools. But critics say schools lack independent evidence that it benefits kids.
U.S. reading scores started to erode before the pandemic. Then came ‘a mudslide.’ But some school districts are bucking that trend.