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When it opened in 1998, the Shuang Wen Academy was heralded as a new kind of boutique public school, rooted in a mission of cross-cultural understanding. Small and open to children of any background, it was billed as the nation’s first dual-language English-Mandarin public school, teaching fluency in both languages.
Parents of preschoolers who are applying to New York’s top private schools are now coming face to face with the test universally known as the E.R.B., a nerve-racking intelligence exam made more so because there is no do-over if the child has a bad day. Enlarge This Image Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Claudia Singleton, center, the mother of a 4-year-old, at a workshop on how New York Cityâ??s top private schools decide which students to admit.
Tuesday night was busy and chilly on Gun Hill Road in the Bronx, even if most eyes and minds were focused a few miles south, where the Yankees were hosting a playoff game. Out of the darkness around 7:30, squeezing through the doors of crowded buses and descending the steps from an elevated train platform, about 40 football players walked one by one across uneven sidewalks lugging shoulder pads, cleats and brightly painted helmets. Related Where Football Means Business (October 23, 2010) Interviews, insight and analysis from The Times on the competition and culture of college football.
What if tiny “nano-bots” could autonomously travel though a person’s bloodstream to find and kill cancerous cells, eliminating the need for surgery? Or what if you could hop into a flying car for your morning commute?
President Obama created a grant program to copy his block-by-block approach to ending poverty. The British government praised his charter schools as a model. And a new documentary opening across the country revolves around him: Geoffrey Canada , the magnetic Harlem Children’s Zone leader with strong ideas about how American education should be fixed.
When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.
If you want to talk about bolstering science and math education in this country, I’ll gladly break out my virtual pompoms and go rah.
A former administrator at St. John’s University accused of embezzling about $1 million from the college in Queens has now been charged with far more lurid crimes: forcing students to clean, cook and act as her personal servants to keep their scholarships
FRANKLIN LAKES, N.J. — By the time they get to kindergarten, children in this well-to-do suburb already know their numbers, so their teachers worried that a new math program was too easy when it covered just 1 and 2 — for a whole week
NEWARK, N.J. – Just two months ago, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg was at a conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, and found himself seated at dinner with Newark Mayor Cory Booker.