Home Schooling: A Washington Heights Family Chooses a Different Approach to Education
Homeschooling becomes more mainstream, as one uptown family discovers.
Homeschooling becomes more mainstream, as one uptown family discovers.
As gentrification increases uptown, the integration of minorities into predominantly black or Hispanic schools is likely to increase cultural interplay.
Bilingual children’s language difficulties may incorrectly place them in special ed classes.
As a new principal takes over Frederick Douglass Academy, parents and teachers reflect on former principal Gregory Hodge and worry about the future.
A local immigrant youth group start a mentorship program to help undocumented students access a college education
The number of homeless students in New York City has quadrupled since 2008, data gathered by the city’s Department of Education indicates. In Harlem, too, “the incidence of student homelessness has significantly increased over the years,” says Emily Kramer of the New York State Technical and Education Assistance Center for Homeless Students (NYS-TEACHS).
Technology Services Corps, a free IT training program for disadvantaged young adults, opened a branch in East Harlem last month
Despite administrative efforts, the Department of Education has labeled JHS 13 in East Harlem a “persistently dangerous” school.
KIPP STAR Elementary opened this fall with 101 kindergarteners.
Youngsters who attend the afterschool program at the Dunlevy Milbank Center in Harlem marched down Eighth Avenue on Thursday, protesting city budget cuts to the Children’s Aid Society.