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The Admissions Game: Remembering to Inhale
Ask most school-age children and parents what September means to them and they conjure up images of shiny new notebooks, pencils and sneakers. They think of first-day-of-school jitters, getting up...
View ArticleVoices From the High School Fair
As the doors opened at 10 a.m Saturday for the city’s annual high school fair, parents and students were lined up outside Brooklyn Technical High School in Fort Greene, waiting anxiously for the chance...
View ArticleA Push to Improve Diversity at Top High Schools
Even as the data collected around schools in New York City have revealed flickers of improvement, one statistic has been persistently discouraging: the lack of black and Hispanic students who score...
View ArticleAt High School Fairs, Many Choices and a Few Worries
Middle school students in New York City had another opportunity this weekend to look over the city's high schools, this time at borough high school fairs, as they try to narrow down the choices for...
View ArticleSchedule Chaos at Long Island City High School
Two months into the school year, and students at Long Island City High School are saying it is just like the first day of school again: all of their schedules have been changed.In a report on NY1, the...
View ArticleCookie Tray Theory Propels Student to D.C.
Students from Stuyvesant High School are perennial entrants in the annual Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology. The Manhattan-based school produced a first-place winner eight years ago...
View ArticleStuyvesant Student Takes Second in Siemens Competition
After two days of facing the judges, a senior at Stuyvesant High School in Manhattan took home a second-place award in the Siemens Competition in Math, Science and Technology with a project that used...
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School Choice? A Question of Time and Money
In a New York Times op-ed article on Monday, Natalie Hopkinson writes that school choice in her neighborhood in Washington has destroyed community-based education for working-class families. With New...
View ArticleDeputy Chancellor Responds to Your School Choice Questions
Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott affirmed his support for school choice at the first SchoolBook community event on Dec. 8, but a number of questions from the hundreds of people in the audience went...
View ArticleTeachers Turn Out in Force at PEP Meeting
Hundred of teachers' union members came out to a Panel for Educational Policy meeting on Wednesday night in a demonstration of their anger toward Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and frustration with his...
View ArticlePromising Results for Specialized High School Tutoring Group
Every Saturday morning for the last year, a team of graduates from some of the city's elite public high schools has spent hours readying teenagers for the specialized high school entrance exam. Now,...
View ArticleWhy Should a Disability Limit High School Choices?
Just like thousands of other students across New York City, I spent the fall of my eighth grade year preparing for the Specialized High School Admissions Test.The test score determines whether a...
View ArticleBronx Borough President Calls for Changes in Elite High School Admissions
Two of the city's eight elite high schools are in the Bronx, but most of the schools' students are from everywhere else.For years, the Bronx High School of Science and the High School of American...
View ArticleWeighing In on Stuyvesant Cheating Scandal
The news that 71 Stuyvesant High School students will have to retake their state exams because of cheating has raised questions about test pressure, the uneven application of the cellphone ban and a...
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Choosing a High School? Two More Chances to Learn About Admissions
The Department of Education is wrapping up a series of high school admission workshops this month. SchoolBook caught up with parents, students and Department of Education officials Thursday night at...
View ArticleAuthor: Let's Do More For Top Students
The author of a new book on academically selective public high schools said Thursday that educators need to identify and nurture bright students long before the ninth grade.Speaking on WNYC's The...
View ArticleAdmissions Test For Elite Schools Prompts Complaint
5:07 p.m. | Updated Claiming not enough black and Latino students are gaining admission to New York City's eight specialized high schools, civil rights advocates on Thursday filed a complaint with the...
View ArticleBrooklyn Latin Students Say Diversity Improves School
The poor representation of black and Latino students in some of the city's top schools has focused on a small group of the nine specialized high schools, namely Stuyvesant High School and Bronx High...
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Students Set Their Sights on a Specialized High School
Beginning this weekend, eighth graders from around the city will take the test that determines who gets seats in eight specialized public high schools. Competition for these spots is fierce. Last year,...
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Around Sunset Park, Tutoring is Key to Top High Schools
Editor's Note: The following article has been corrected. Two of Stanley Ng's children attend, or attended, Brooklyn Technical High School while one attends Stuyvesant High School. Denis Ni is a junior...
View ArticleQuinn Challenges Bloomberg to Expand G&T
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, a Democratic candidate for mayor, stepped away from her frequent position at the side of Mayor Michael Bloomberg to criticize his administration for a lack of...
View ArticleChart: Manhattan Advantage in Public High School Admissions
Michael Krutyansky was hardly alone last year in his struggle to land a seat in an academically screened high school in Manhattan. It worked out for him only because his mother successfully appealed...
View ArticleLawmakers Tackle Specialized High Schools Admissions
State lawmakers introduced a bill to the assembly on Monday that would change the way students are admitted to New York City’s eight specialized high schools, which include Stuyvesant and Brooklyn...
View ArticleParents Say Brooklyn Tech Feels Like 'Ugly Stepchild' of Specialized Schools
Parents of students at Brooklyn Technical High School said at a meeting this week that the school has been struggling for years with limited funds, as students fix broken equipment and parents strive...
View ArticleCity to Recruit More Blacks, Latinos for Specialized High Schools
WNYC has learned the Department of Education on Thursday will announce several new initiatives aimed at improving student diversity in the city's eight specialized high schools, where black and Latino...
View ArticleBehind de Blasio's 11th Hour Bid to Diversify Elite High Schools
Gov. Andrew Cuomo quickly shot down Mayor Bill de Blasio's proposal to diversify New York City's eight elite public schools on Monday, saying it came too late in this year's legislative session. While...
View ArticleSHSAT and Its Discontents
Madina Touré, New York City education reporter for Politico New York, andClara Hemphill, founder of InsideSchools at the New School’s Center for New York City Affairs, discuss proposals to change...
View ArticleSouth Bronx Overdoses; SHSAT Changes; No Democracy Without Voting Rights;...
Coming up on today's show: Kassandra Frederique, New York State director at the Drug Policy Alliance, breaks down a report from the Department of Health that reveals that though overdoses are still...
View Article'Consumed With Anxiety': Late NYC High School Acceptances Put Families On Edge
Students applying to public high schools in New York City are still awaiting notification about the first round of admissions, which have been unusually delayed compared to previous years.About 80,000...
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