Teaching & Classroom
New York City schools are receiving about $16 million in one-time funding to implement the statewide cellphone ban. Some schools are getting more than $100,000 for device storage solutions.
When asked to generate behavior intervention plans, AI teacher assistants recommended more punitive approaches for students with Black-coded names, a new study from Common Sense Media found.
Many Teaching Fellows are owed up to $4,500 for participating in an intensive summer training program. City officials blamed bureaucratic snafus for the delayed payments.
Teachers being hurt on the job is a common yet underreported issue, educators and experts said.
The push to standardize reading interventions represents one of the first literacy initiatives under Mayor Eric Adams that will directly affect high schools.
A recent Supreme Court ruling that supported parents’ religious right to opt their child out of LGBTQ-inclusive lessons could aid parents worried about a new curriculum that draws heavily on texts like the Book of Genesis and the Sermon on the Mount.
The Trump administration says the changes affecting Climate.gov are about ‘restoring gold standard science.’ But science educators worry about losing the free classroom resources it has provided.
Lauren Brady, a winner of the Math for America’s 2025 Muller Award, helped turn around Park East High School’s math program by focusing on small group instruction.
The Trump administration cut a prestigious national award for STEM teachers, prompting a campaign to save it.
City officials are under pressure to show that Eric Adams’ curriculum overhaul is working. New data paints an encouraging picture but should be interpreted with caution, experts say.
Columbia Secondary is reeling from an exodus of teachers and student-led protests. The turmoil comes as a new principal has shifted the school’s culture and curriculum.
Addison Wang was initially skeptical of spending 16 hours a week at a job site instead of at school. Here’s what changed his mind.
A new RAND study finds that students' ideas about themselves as math learners often form at an early age, with big implications for middle and high school.
Historian and former NYC teacher Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, the lead scholar on a new Jewish American history curriculum, hopes it will inform students and foster empathy.
The semifinalists were selected from a record-breaking pool of 419 applicants.
Episode 9 of P.S. Weekly takes on the state of civics education and youth engagement in New York City.
The Education Department made a scheduling error for this week’s Eid al-Adha, a Muslim holiday, and didn’t communicate about it to schools until Tuesday morning.
The detailed list comes more than a month after New York City officials announced they are approving an additional 3,700 teachers to lower class sizes.
Research finds that shorter school weeks lead to less learning and don’t save school districts money. That hasn’t stopped their growth.
One student described the scholarship that would help her become a teacher in her hometown as 'a dream come true.' Now that scholarship is gone amid $600 million in cuts to teacher training programs.