by Sarah Green | Aug 15, 2014 | Profiles
Prep for Prep was established in 1978, and selects New York City’s most promising students of color and prepares them for placement into top independent schools. For the past thirty years, 150 low-income New York fifth-and-seventh grade children are selected from a...
by Sarah Green | Mar 14, 2014 | News, Student Issues, Teacher Issues
Twenty years ago, “alternative education” wasn’t the behemoth it has become today. With politics, economics, and contemporary education reform tangled into one giant mess in 2014, primary education as we know it has certainly taken a new shape in the twenty-first...
by Sarah Green | Feb 21, 2014 | News, Parent Issues, Teacher Issues
During his campaign, Bill de Blasio, now NYC’s newest mayor, said that charter schools with more money should be required to pay rent, one part of his plan to restructure school systems locally. Now putting his ideas into action, many of the city’s charter schools are...
