OTHER STORIES

• DOE knows, but won’t admit: Class size counts

  For all of its single-minded focus on quantitative data, there is one hard number that the Department of Education invariably dismisses as relatively insignificant: class size.

• Solving the grades 7-12 special ed teachers shortage

  Just four years ago, the State Education Department’s Board of Regents put in place new certification requirements that it hoped would give special educators the content expertise to teach to the standard at the middle school and high school levels.

• CTE reform a proven success

  The definition of reform is to improve, so any real reform must demonstrate tangible improvement. What concerns me is when the phrase “educational reform” is used as the beginning of an attack on public education.

• So-called ‘extras’ critical to childhood development

  If the city axes $100 million now and another $324 million next year from school budgets, then all people ever really need to know sure isn’t going to be learned in kindergarten.

• Making accountability count

  Over the Christmas vacation I took some time off to dip into a new translation of one of my favorite books, “Don Quixote,” a classic that always gets me thinking about life in new and surprising ways.

• It takes a village

  Change in our schools cannot take place only with the efforts and support of our UFT members.

• VPerspective archive