In education and life, character counts

ALBANY — The problem: Just three quarters of students in New York graduate high school in four years and fewer than half of them are prepared for college, despite the fact that New York spends more money per pupil on education than any other state. The Â

Peel’s public school board administrators are not happy with the provincial government’s push to graduate high school students in four years and a decision limiting funding for those who return to earn additional course credits. During a recent meeting,

Our CReATE group has come out with another report exposing the continuing CPS disinformation campaign around school closings. This one shows that impact of the closings on the lives of students has been underestimated in media statements from the Board b

Community College Spotlight is written by Joanne Jacobs. It provides a forum for discussion and debate about America’s community colleges, which are home to nearly half of all college students in the U.S. Views expressed on the blog are those of Joanne J

I am also a New York state public school educator who has recently retired for the very same reason as Jerry Conti, and agree whole heartedly with everything he has so eloquently stated. I also read the article quoting state Education Commissioner John K

Any thought of law school vanished the moment Ferrin Bujan stepped into a classroom as a student teacher. It was her last year at Queens College, where she was majoring in math and education, and she had been a little uncertain about her future. “The wor