An environmental engineer-turned-teacher shares how she helps students learn to love math and get prepared for university.
The money will go towards supporting an initiative in which teachers share and create innovative ways to provide students with a strong conceptual understanding of math.
More than 400 educators came together at a summer institute to learn how to provide students with academic experiences that reflect the diversity of their schools.
A Harlem principal describes the practices her community uses to improve self awareness and mindfulness.
The elementary school was approved by the Board of Regents in June, and it’s set to be the first charter school in the state — and among only a few public schools nationwide — devoted to educating children with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities.
The program also saw the most students ever participate in its graduation ceremony, a joyful celebration held this year at the Bronx United Palace Theater.
If the plan becomes a reality, schools such as New Venture theoretically have the most to gain. But the proposal would do little to solve the most entrenched challenges that have kept students from schools such as New Venture out of specialized high schools for so long.
As politicians and parents take sides over a new plan to scrap the specialized high school test, students at the center of the controversy wrestle with the issue.
The test stands at the center of a contentious debate that blew open last weekend over the stark underrepresentation of black and Hispanic students there.