Teaching & Classroom
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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.
Chalkbeat asked every mayoral candidate whether they would keep the NYC Reads and NYC Solves curriculum mandates in place. Here’s what they told us.
A new study finds that gender gaps that had closed before COVID widened again after students returned to in-person learning.
The longtime UFT president’s role in approving the loathed Medicare Advantage cost-savings switch of retiree health insurance has rival candidates gunning to dislodge him.
Under the policy, school districts across the state will have until this summer to craft their implementation plans and must begin enforcing them at the start of next school year.
Corey Rosser will go on to compete for the 2025 National Teacher of the Year award.
The seven new schools are part of a multiyear flurry of openings that city officials hope will reinvigorate the system at a time of faltering enrollment.
Episode 4 of P.S. Weekly tackles teacher turnover and how turbulent relationships between teachers and administrators might be a major contributing factor.
Some districts invested pandemic relief money in instructional coaches and increased time spent on math. Test scores suggest that strategy’s paying off.
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.