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Cuomo Commission Needs to Look at the Big Picture
When Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo announced last month that he planned to create an education commission to promote performance and accountability in New York State and become a “lobbyist” for our children,...
View ArticleMethodology of Progress Reports Under Scrutiny
With the sixth annual release of school progress reports, many parents and teachers are again raising concerns over how to interpret the scores and whether or not the reports are even useful. Some take...
View ArticleSchool Closure Decisions Remain Opaque
As the city prepares for another round of school closure hearings this month, presumably the last under Mayor Michael Bloomberg, community leaders in some of the affected neighborhoods have questioned...
View ArticleD.O.E. Lays Out the Challenge of Measuring Schools
School officials defended on Tuesday night one their signature data tools: the school progress report. At the same time, Shael Polakow-Suransky, the city's Chief Academic Officer, conceded that the...
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What Do Those School Grades Really Show?
Progress reports without a grade. That’s what Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio proposed during the campaign and it led SchoolBook to wonder: what are all those numbers behind the grades and what can we learn...
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UPDATE: Missing Teen Found After Leaving Special Ed School in Brooklyn
UPDATE: Police say they found Nashaly Perez-Rodriguez Thursday morning around 7 a.m. unharmed and with a friend. She has been reunited with her family.PreviouslyThe parents of a special needs student...
View ArticleNew School Ratings System Eliminates Grades, Emphasizes Quality Reviews
In her second major policy speech, Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña on Wednesday laid out her vision for a "new era" in the New York City public school system, and introduced a new system for...
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