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The cat’s out of the bag
Pets in the Classroom, a program that gives financial support to pre-K through 9th-grade teachers for small animals to keep in their classrooms, provides teachers with one initial voucher or rebate to purchase a pet and necessary supplies and then a...
California embraces community schooling
California is launching a seven-year initiative to convert potentially thousands of schools into full-service, parent-focused community schools.
Starbucks fires 20 union organizers
Starbucks is using aggressive tactics to squash the efforts of workers seeking to unionize at the world’s largest coffeehouse chain.
Conservatives fare poorly in NY school board races
An analysis of preliminary results from New York State’s May 17 school board elections found that the majority of conservative “parents’ rights” candidates, who oppose mask mandates, critical race theory and other policies, were trounced in their...
A mosaic memorial
Colleagues and students create a mosaic mural to remember Rulx Dagus, a paraprofessional at P 369K in Park Slope, Brooklyn, who died of COVID-19.
Google Chrome extensions for educators
There are many reasons for using Google’s Chrome browser — it’s generally fast and integrates seamlessly with Google programs you may use such as Google Classroom. But there is another good reason: the ability to add Chrome extensions.
Schoolhouse heroes
Three New York City public school educators jumped into action when they saw their students in distress, and their help made the difference in each life-threatening situation.
ENL integrated co-teaching
When I began my teaching career in 2007, more than a quarter of the students at my Queens elementary school were English language learners. Each year, our school seemed to shift its strategy for English as a New Language instruction in a fresh...
Stunning Amazon upset
The Amazon Labor Union wins one organizing battle and loses one at two of the company's Staten Island warehouses.
En garde!
Every Friday after school at PS 340 in the Kingsbridge Heights section of the Bronx, 20 students march into the school cafeteria and prepare to attack each other with swords. They are participants in the school’s first-ever fencing club, launched in...