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The power of words

Students from Manhattan's Maxine Greene HS for Imagination and Inquiry brought history to life through the words of minorities, the working poor, immigrants, rebels and dissenters, at a Lincoln Center performance that capped their two-year AP...

Noteworthy graduate: Lawrence Mohr, physician to two presidents

Lawrence Mohr is a doctor, an educator and a much-decorated Vietnam veteran, who served as the White House physician for two presidents. He is also a graduate of New York City public schools.

RX for success

The intent young scientists in sterile lab coats, masks and gloves laboring at busy lab stations like professional researchers are actually 11th-graders at Union Square Academy for Health Sciences, the only high school in New York City with a...

Silence is golden

Meditation program reaping benefits for students and staff at Bronx HS for Law and Community Service.

Manhattan high school uses PROSE to innovate

Harvest Collegiate HS is using the PROSE provision in the UFT contract to gain more freedom to veer from tradition this year. This year’s plan is to increase teacher leadership positions and conduct a grand experiment in peer evaluation.

PS 261, Brooklyn, students participate in Art of Giving

Second-graders at PS 261 in Boerum Hill brightened the lives of the veterans at St. Albans Community Living Center in Queens by donating their artwork as part of the Art of Giving project, a collaboration between UFT elementary schools and local...

Co-location threatens Fort Greene school’s arts programs

Harlem Success Academy chief Eva Moskowitz’s planned expansion of her charter network into a Fort Greene school is raising alarm among parents and staff, who say the co-location threatens the music and arts program at the heart of the 6-12 grade...

Noteworthy graduates: Judge Milton A. Tingling, NYS Supreme Court Justice

Judge Tingling, who halted Bloomberg’s ban on oversized sugary drinks, went to school in Harlem in the 1960s. “My 3rd-grade teacher Ms. Commack recently reached out to me; my teachers say they are proud of me. But not more than I am of them,” he says...