WNYC, New York Times to Launch Innovative Education Site SchoolBook
WNYC and the New York Times have partnered to launch SchoolBook, an interactive education website of news, information and conversation about New York City schools. SchoolBook, which will launch...
View ArticleSchoolBook: The Data
Beth Fertig, WNYC education reporter, and Robert Gebeloff, New York Times reporter specializing in data analysis, talk about the New York Times/WNYC project "SchoolBook" and preparing for the first day...
View ArticleLook | First Day of School
SchoolBook.orgPHOTOS. It's the first day of school. The city's system may be facing tough policy and budget issues but today is all about the excitement of a new year for the students and teachers in...
View ArticleMore City Schools Get Low Marks
SchoolBook.orgTwice as many city elementary and middle schools earned D's and F's on their annual report cards this year than did last year.The city gives out A through F letter grades to schools based...
View ArticleSchoolBook: Buildings
Beth Fertig, WNYC's education reporter and contributor to SchoolBook, continues the September Schoolbook series, this week focusing on the school buildings themselves. Space is tight at city schools....
View ArticleLast Day of School for Hundreds of School Aides
Budget cuts have trickled down to the support staff in many of the city's neediest schools. About 700 school aides, parent coordinators and family workers are out of work after today. SchoolBook...
View ArticleRegents Board Approves Grading Ban
New York's Board of Regents has approved a ban against teachers' grading their own students' state standardized tests. The ban is part of an effort to stop cheating on the exams, which not only...
View ArticleFewer 'A's for High Schools
Fewer high schools got A's from the city on their annual report cards, and more got D's. The city says that's partly because the state is raising graduation standards.Meanwhile, as WNYC's Beth Fertig...
View ArticleSchoolBook Town Hall with Chancellor Walcott
Hear excerpts of Brian's interview last night with NYC Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott at the SchoolBook Town Hall event.»» Have you gone through the school choice process? Schoolbook wants to know...
View ArticleQuestions Abound at SchoolBook Town Hall
A few hundred people, the vast majority of whom were parents, turned out for SchoolBook’s first community event Thursday evening on the campus of the Pratt Institute in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn. Based on...
View ArticleWatch | City Chef Teaches Kids How to Cook
SchoolBook.orgVIDEO. With about one in three children in the United States overweight or obese, more schools are looking for ways to teach healthy eating choices. A group of volunteer parents and chefs...
View ArticleFollowing Up: PTA Funding
Beth Fertig, WNYC's education reporter and contributor to SchoolBook, follows up on the exploration of funding disparities in NYC's public schools with the rules as to what parents may, and may not,...
View ArticleSchool News Roundup
Beth Fertig, WNYC's education reporter and contributor to SchoolBook, updates the status of teacher evaluations and the possible school bus drivers strike.
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Teens Tackle Sexual Cyberbullying at Town Hall
According to a group of New York City teenagers, sexually explicit content involving their classmates is a regular occurrence in their social media lives and mostly, they said, they ignored it and kept...
View ArticleOne Teen's Take: The Media’s Imprint on Sexual Cyber Bullying
Many teenagers see derogatory, sexual references like slut, whore and ho made by and about our peers on a near-daily basis in our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram feeds. But how do we react? Do we laugh...
View ArticleWelcome to SchoolBook: Participation Encouraged
SchoolBook was invented by The New York Times and WNYC, but it is your site to shape, define and grow. Dive in. Read our posts. Check out the individual school pages. Study the data. Analyze the...
View ArticlePrincipals' Summer Assignment: 'My School'
What better way to learn about a school than to meet the principal? That is what SchoolBook had in mind when it sent out a questionnaire to every principal in the public school system, offering them...
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Our 9/11: Growing Up in the Aftermath
To mark the 10th anniversary of 9/11, WNYC formed a partnership with the 9/11 Memorial and Museum to share the stories of six young people from the region who are part of the last generation of young...
View ArticleOn Eve of Back-to-School, Unhappy Parents and Protests
Welcome to First Bell, SchoolBook's morning take on school news.City Hall officials are playing down the results of a New York Times poll that found that New Yorkers are broadly dissatisfied with the...
View ArticleAn Introduction to SchoolBook’s Data
When the forecast calls for temperatures in the 90s with 85 percent humidity, you can almost feel the sweat beads forming on your skin.When your favorite football team signs that 240-pound linebacker...
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