The conference was bankrolled by the Pearson Foundation and was attended by former New York State Education Commissioner David M.
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New York state Education Commissioner John King said this week he wouldn't be surprised if the number of students considered proficient drops by 35 percentage points.
New York City education officials are developing more than a dozen new standardized tests, but in a sign of the times, their main purpose will be to grade teachers, not the students who take them.
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New York state education officials have already begun to weigh the fallout from tougher standardized tests tied to new academic standards after schools and parents complained this week that children ran out of time, collapsed in tears or froze up.
Mr. Mulgrew had said there wasn't any more time to get a deal on paper, but New York state Education Commissioner John King, who must ultimately approve any evaluation system, said "even at this late hour" there was still time.
Biomedical engineer, network systems and data communications analyst, home health aide: those are the top three career fields expected to hire workers between now and 2018, says a story tucked into The New York Times Education Life supplement last Sunday.
We partnered with the New York City Department of Education, the City University of New York, and the New York College of Technology to create P-TECH in New York.
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"It was like a crowded, crazy bazaar somewhere in the Middle East, " recalls Neil Dorosin, a former New York Department of Education official.
Active Learning's student body may be more accustomed to vegetarian diets than most, with 85% of the students being Asian and another 10% Hispanic, said Margie Feinberg, spokeswoman for the New York Department of Education.
Faced with the harsh reality of student debt, the NYPIRG and New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC) came together to power the National College Finance Center and its national public service campaign.
Walcott, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, says he takes cyberbullying seriously.
She called the New York City Department of Education and won its seal of approval.
All these things explain why New York politicos have treated education as a hornets' nest.
Joel Klein, who spent eight years as Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, is stepping down.
Not even an independent testing cohort staffed by educators outside the purview of the New York City Department of Education.
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New York City's education department hired ten additional lawyers to focus on disputes over special ed, including the education of autistic students.
Joel Klein, whom Bloomberg tapped to run the New York City Department of Education, sits in a pew-turned-cubicle in the converted Tweed Courthouse, surrounded by his senior staff.
As a child in the New York Institute for the Education of the Blind in 1949, John Boyer found that contemporary scientific material in braille was almost non-existent.
The Review was dealing with bureaucracies like the New York City Department of Education and the Los Angeles Unified School District, a far cry from affluent parents eager to write checks that might buy an Ivy League admission.
Ms. Huntley pleaded guilty to mail fraud in January, saying she falsely represented in certification forms filed to the New York State Department of Education that money granted to her non-profit group, the Parents Information Network, was spent only on the organization.
According to Joel Rose, chief executive for human capital within the New York City department of education and founder of the School of One, the new model will not require schools to add staff--but it will take a different type of planning.
In September the New York Civil Liberties Union published a study on sex education in schools in conservative upstate New York.
New York's Department of Education fired Toquir Choudhri, after he browsed sites like Google and lonelyplanet.com.
Today, his disciples can take painting classes at The Art Barge in Amagansett, founded by Victor D'Amico, the first director of education at New York's Museum of Modern Art.
"In many cases the schools lack the resources and personnel to respond adequately to student needs, " explains Pedro Noguera, a professor of education at New York University.
He did his first tattoo on himself when he was 16 and earned a degree in fine arts with a minor in education from New York Institute of Technology.
Professor PEDRO NOGUERA (Professor of Education, New York University): Well, I think what this really represents to me is Bush's--the Bush administration's willingness to only appeal to a very narrow conservative base.
At the same time, those employees might inadvertently encourage their peers to follow their lead, or create a divided work force, adds Manny Avramidis, a senior vice president at the American Management Association, a provider of business education in New York.
Devin Bigoness is a Project Director with Duke Corporate Education based in New York.
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