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Too Early for Kindergarten
Children from the Audrey Johnson Day Care Center quietly protest city plans to close their school at hearing today.At a state hearing today, lawmakers heard complaints from early-childcare workers and...
View ArticleThousands Wait-Listed for Kindergarten Classes
Nearly 3,200 New York City children are on wait lists to attend kindergarten in the public schools — an increase of 40 percent over the same time last year.The Department of Education said 8,000 more...
View ArticleComing Soon to Manhattan: More Preschools
Applying to kindergarten in New York is blood sport. It’s no wonder, considering the numbers as reported in this article about sibling preferences. But New York City parents know the war starts...
View ArticleExpert Advice on Sharing Your Child's Weaknesses
Application season is in full swing and parents are wondering how to answer the following question, common in many private preschool and kindergartens:“Tell us about your child. What are his/her...
View ArticleState Seeks Another Race to the Top Grant
New York State is entering the competition for another federal Race to the Top education grant — this time by seeking $100 million for early childhood learning programs.Noting that 44 percent of third...
View ArticleNew Study Likely to Roil Teacher Value Debate
Let the discussion begin:A new study weighs into the controversial value-added debate with findings that elementary and middle-school teachers who raise their students' test scores have an effect on...
View ArticleKindergarten Application Season Starts in City Schools
New York City elementary schools are lining up tours for parents of prospective students this month, as the annual admissions cycle kicks into gear. Applications for the 2012-13 kindergarten classes...
View ArticleCity Publishes New Elementary School Directory
In the news on Tuesday, schools Chancellor Dennis M. Walcott visited Albany on Monday and expressed pessimism about whether the 2010 teacher evaluation law can be made to work, and the public advocate,...
View ArticleQuinn to Propose Mandatory Kindergarten
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn will be outlining her priorities for the city on Thursday, and will make children and education a major focus of her speech. Ms. Quinn, who is a likely mayoral...
View ArticleCobble Hill Parents Sue to Block Success Academy 3
Eva S. Moskowitz and her Success Academy charter schools are in the news on Thursday, again as the target of a lawsuit to try to stop her from establishing another school, this time in Cobble Hill,...
View ArticleSome Charters Impose Earlier Kindergarten Cutoff Dates
Happy Valentine's Day. The New York Post reports this Tuesday morning that some charter schools have moved up their cutoff entry dates for kindergarten to as early as Aug. 31, meaning parents of...
View ArticleQueens School Faces Heavy Demand on Eve of Kindergarten Deadline
WNYCIris Rodriguez lives one block away from Learners and Leaders (Public School 305), a relatively new elementary school in Ridgewood, Queens. So, naturally, she expected her 4-year-old son would go...
View ArticleQuinn's Quest for 'Kindergarten for All'
Kindergarten is not mandatory in New York City. And so anywhere from 3,000 to 6,000 children each year who meet the age qualifications don't enroll in kindergarten -- and too often those are poor or...
View ArticleDistricts Moving Against 'Pink Slime'
"Pink slime" is on its way out.Even as the United States Department of Agriculture says it will begin offering schools alternatives to products that contain "pink slime," an ammonia-based filler for...
View ArticleCity Will Add Seats to Schools, but Still Fall Short of Demand
The New York City Education Department plans to add 5,000 seats to its plan for city schools, but will still fall short of what is needed to reduce crowding in parts of the city.In an amendment to its...
View ArticleTweet, Tweet, Go the Kindergartners
“Tweet, tweet, tweet!” chirped the kindergartners in Jennifer Aaron's class last week, as they settled onto the multicolored carpet and began to consider what they would like to send out into the...
View ArticleLengthy Kindergarten Wait Lists Unveiled as Applicants Increase
More than 2,400 children are on wait lists to get into kindergarten classes at their local, zoned New York City public schools, as applications continued to climb, the Department of Education revealed...
View ArticleLong Waiting Lists Again for Kindergarten Seats
More than 2,400 children are on waiting lists to get into kindergarten classes at their zoned New York City public schools in September -- partly as a result of an increase in applications, city...
View ArticleHow a Photo of Joel Klein Saved a Teacher's Job
During this holiday weekend, The New York Times continued to dig deeper into cases of teachers accused of inappropriate conduct, this time explaining why a music teacher in Washington Heights was able...
View ArticleMaking the Early Grade: More City Children Test into Gifted and Talented...
A total of 39,330 children took exams to get into gifted and talented programs in New York City's public elementary schools, and 24 percent of them scored high enough to be eligible. That's an increase...
View ArticleIn Albany, a Bill for Mandatory Kindergarten
Legislation that would compel New York City schools to make kindergarten seats available to 5-year-olds is now wending its way through the State Legislature, awaiting action by the education committees...
View ArticleAdmissions Letters for Gifted and Talented Programs Go Out
Thousands of incoming kindergarten through third-grade students began learning on Friday whether they received an offer from one of 89 gifted and talented programs in the New York City public...
View ArticleConditional 'Yes' on Money for 24 City Schools
A new week brings the last days of public school in New York City -- as well as confusion over who goes to school and when. (Many private school students are already tucked into their camp bunks.)Last...
View ArticleCity Replaces One of the Required G&T Tests
12:02 p.m. | Editor's Note: An earlier version of this article incorrectly stated the percentages the two tests will account for when evaluating an applicant to a gifted and talented school. The...
View ArticleCalling All Five Year Olds for Kindergarten
By Friday's deadline, tens of thousands of parents will have turned in applications to get their little ones into kindergarten. It's a process in New York City that as much celebrates a family...
View ArticleKindergarten Applications Going Digital
When the 2014-15 application period opens for kindergarten, New York City parents will have the option to apply online or by phone rather than personally visiting every school on their list and...
View Article30 Issues: Funding Pre-K
It's Education Week on the Brian Lehrer Show's election series "30 Issues in 30 Days." See the full 30 Issues schedule and archive here. NYC Mayoral candidate Bill de Blasio says he will tax the...
View ArticleShowtime: Application Season for Kindergarten Opens
For parents who want their children to attend kindergarten in a New York City public school next year, now is the time to apply.Application season may be an annual ritual but this year there's a big...
View ArticleNYC Parents Go Shopping for Kindergarten
Some New York City parents, confident in their zoned school or well-versed in their elementary school options, have already filled out the online application for kindergarten well before the Feb. 13...
View ArticleSmall Uptick in First Choice Matches for Kindergarten
Offer letters for families who applied to kindergarten by the February deadline were sent out Tuesday, New York City education officials said, and approximately 72 percent of applicants got their first...
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Rocky home lives could hinder kindergartener success, study finds
According to a new study published this month, children under the age of five, who experience neglect, abuse and dysfunctional home lives, could go on to have a poor academic and behavioral performance...
View ArticleOne School's Experiment with Outdoor Play
It's 10:45 a.m. and a gaggle of five- and six-year-olds are carrying a heavy fallen tree trunk across the northern slope of Fort Greene Park. In another corner, classmates are making a tower out of...
View ArticleCity Chancellor Talks Suspensions and 'Moral Compass' for Promoting Diversity
Days before the 2016-17 school year begins, Chancellor Carmen Fariña said this year would be one of extending and deepening initiatives begun in her previous two years at the helm of the New York City...
View ArticleAs Consensus Around Pre-K Grows, Access Still Lags
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. It’s late August, and that means many American schoolchildren are returning to school. As parents prepare their kids for the upcoming year, we...
View ArticlePre-K: Preparing for the Most Important Year
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. Millions of kids across the country are starting school this week. Yesterday, we heard about how access to early childhood education programs...
View ArticleNYC's First District-Wide School Diversity Plan Gets Pushback
Starting next fall, Pre-K and Kindergarten students on the Lower East Side and East Village who meet one of three criteria will get priority for the majority of seats at District 1 elementary...
View ArticleNYC Extends the Deadline for Kindergarten Applications
The New York City Department of Education has given parents an extra week to apply for kindergarten in the city's public schools. The original deadline was Friday. The new deadline is Jan. 19. Any...
View ArticleMaggie Gyllenhaal Knows What She Wants
Maggie Gyllenhaal's in a good place right now, at least as far as work and family go. Her latest starring role is as a troubled teacher named Lisa Spinelli in The Kindergarten Teacher. It's an...
View Article349- Froebel's Gifts
In the late 1700s, a young man named Freidrich Froebel was on track to become an architect when a friend convinced him to pursue a path toward education instead. And in changing course, Froebel...
View ArticleA Rare Look At China's Treatment of Uighur Muslims
“Break their lineage, break their roots, break their connections, and break their origins.” That’s a quote from a Chinese government document on how to deal with the Uighur Muslim population of...
View ArticleYounger Children More Likely to be Classified with Learning Disabilities
A new study finds that New York City children born in the last two months of the year are far more likely than their earlier-born classmates to be classified with with a learning disability.NYC Public...
View Article492- Inheriting Froebel's Gifts
In the late 1700s, a young man named Friedrich Froebel was on track to become an architect when a friend convinced him to pursue a path toward education instead. And in changing course, Froebel...
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