Should teachers in the digital age be allowed to Facebook friend and Twitter follow their students? The New York Department of Education (NYC DOE) says no.
Continue Reading →Should teachers in the digital age be allowed to Facebook friend and Twitter follow their students? The New York Department of Education (NYC DOE) says no.
Continue Reading →(Reuters) – New York City expects a total budget gap of $495 million for the current and next fiscal years due to weaker profits on Wall Street than previously forecast, although funds from a legal settlement will largely fill the gap, an administratio…
Continue Reading →(Reuters) – New York City expects a total budget gap of $495 million for the current and next fiscal years due to weaker profits on Wall Street than previously forecast, although funds from a legal settlement will largely fill the gap, an administratio…
Continue Reading →NEW YORK — Many high school students do math problems about trains. Fewer win $115,000 in college scholarships by calculating the possible future of U.S. high-speed rail.
Continue Reading →NEW YORK (Reuters) – A New Jersey school district has fired at least two educators for verbally abusing autistic children after a father sent his 10-year-old autistic son to school wearing a hidden microphone upon suspecting he was being mistreated by …
Continue Reading →NEW YORK (Reuters) – College students held demonstrations in several U.S. cities on Wednesday to mark the day total U.S. student loan debt was expected to reach $1 trillion, with some burning student loan documents and others demanding a right to “debt…
Continue Reading →In the opening scene of HBO’s new show “Girls,” Hannah, a 23-year-old college grad living in New York City, flips out when her parents tell her she’s cut off–they’re not giving her anymore money. As two professors, they simply can’t afford it anymore,…
Continue Reading →By Scott Waldman, Times Union , New York, (MCT)
Albany
Provisions included in New York’s state budget should speed up teacher discipline hearings and bring down costs.
The changes will limit the pay of the hearing officers who decide the cases and fo…
Sure, it’s an informal survey, but a New York Times reporter’s finding that eight black college students he spoke to have been stopped by police a collective 92 times is still a disturbing reminder of how the NYPD wields its stop-and-frisk tactics t…
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