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The moral of the story

Success Academy is calling it “a moral imperative” to double student enrollment in charter schools, from 100,000 to 200,000 students.

Class suspensions

Many years ago, I served as dean in an East Harlem junior high school. I maintained a strict policy of the immediate removal of disruptive students from the classroom.

LIU faculty ‘blindsided’ by ‘terrifying’ lockout

At midnight on Sept. 2, at the start of the Labor Day weekend, about 400 faculty members at Long Island University Brooklyn were locked out of school with three days left in their contract negotiations.

Student-created rubrics

Rubrics that students create themselves are a great way for students to take ownership of their work and have a clear understanding of assessment criteria.

3 educators, One Opening Day

How 3 educators set the groundwork for another successful school year.

Making homework more productive

What should homework look like? How long should it take? Should it even exist at all?

Back to school

Some wore ear-to-ear smiles, hugging friends and teachers and sharing stories of summer adventures. freedom from homework and brown-bag lunches. Some laughed, others cried. Some were waiting as the doors swung open and others barely cleared the...

Calif. court: Test scores not required in teacher ratings

A judge in Northern California refused to mandate the use of student test scores in teacher evaluations.

Transgender student wins bathroom access

A transgender student in Wisconsin won a federal injunction preventing his school from requiring him to use a separate restroom from other students.

Historic victory on OT pay for California farmworkers

Ending a nearly 80-year-long practice of applying separate rules to agricultural workers, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law a bill granting agricultural laborers the same right to overtime pay as most other hourly workers. More than 825,000...