Teaching & Classroom
Education Department officials are hoping that programs like one at Brooklyn International can serve as a model to help the city creatively address a historic teacher hiring challenge.
In an exclusive interview, Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos explained why she believes middle school math curriculums should be standardized despite outcry from the teachers union.
The mayor’s reading and math curriculum mandates will cover all middle schools by fall 2027. It will likely fall to his successor to implement them.
Republican board members criticized the proposal as biased, one-sided, and ‘indoctrination.’
The Education Department expects to hire between 7,000 and 9,000 new educators.
School safety, academic progress were areas of interest among New Yorkers in a survey conducted for Chalkbeat and Civic News Company.
Veteran educator Steve Lazar is part of a growing virtual program that helps give small schools access to a wider range of advanced classes.
The announcement came Thursday as a crowded field of candidates vies for political support ahead of the June 24 primary and Nov. 4 general election.
The conservative group’s new training program seeks to drive activism against social and emotional learning in schools.
Nearly 1 in 5 students in New York City identifies as Asian American, but just 8% of teachers and 5% of administrators are Asian American.
‘We most heartily agree with President Trump,’ says a resolution urging teachers to fall in line.
“Colorado can set the example that we will not tolerate that foolishness here in Colorado, and we will not allow people to divide us,” bill sponsor Rep. Regina English said.
PBS had deleted the LGBTQ history videos in response to a barrage of executive orders seeking to rid schools of “discriminatory equity ideology” and abolish DEI programs.
A University of Colorado Boulder researcher said the study results show Zearn Math helped students, but other factors also likely contributed to math gains.
The findings are significant because there’s strong evidence that teachers of color bring a range of educational benefits for students.
Exemptions to the city’s reading curriculum mandate have been awarded to schools with unusually high reading scores on state tests.
Indianapolis-area teachers will share their classroom experiences at this story slam that’s co-hosted by Chalkbeat Indiana on Feb. 25.
Damon teaches history at Denver’s DELTA High School. She is one of four finalists for the national award.
NAEP results released Wednesday showed little change in average math and reading scores for New Jersey, but gaps between the state’s lowest- and highest-performing students widened.
Scores for eighth grade reading and math as well as fourth grade reading are basically the same as NAEP results from 2022.