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The practice of rewarding teachers based on student achievement dates back to early 18th century England, where the system was ultimately discarded mainly due to the large degree of record falsification and rote education. In the late 1960’s, President Nixon introduced a similar system which produced the same results. In fact, there have not been [...]

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The latest effort of the Bad Plus shows them making great strides towards their ultimate ideal of music. For those of you who haven’t yet heard the genius that constitutes the Bad Plus, you are truly missing out. They are an acoustic piano trio that dabbles into various musical styles while still retaining an identity [...]

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Across the country, school systems are failing children. These children are not being left back, they do not score below a 65 in their classes and tests, and they have not racked up dozens of unexplained absences. For the most part, they have done nothing wrong academically. Rather, the bureaucrats hidden away [...]

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A recent report released by the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU) and Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer brought to light surprising discoveries about the activities of the American military in our public schools. The catalyst for the report, entitled “We Want You(th),” was a Stuyvesant student, who brought this important issue to the attention [...]

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Student #1: I got a 92, what’d you get?
Student #2: I got a 96, ha!
Student #1: Did you cheat off me?
Student #2: Yeah.
Student #1: Ah! I want my money!
Student #2: No man, I didn’t cheat off you, I couldn’t even see your paper! It was out of my own intelligence.
Student #1: Sure.
Student #2: And some [...]

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We’ll always have Paris, as noted in Casablanca, but Cambridge evidently doesn’t think very highly of us.
It is now somewhat well known that the consulting firm Cambridge Education has been hired by the Department of Education (DOE) to survey and rate each and every school in the city. Our judgment day has come and [...]

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Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Chancellor Joel Klein have recently designed a complete overhaul of the New York City school system.
Instead of the current 10 regions, schools will be reorganized back into 32 districts, just four years after Bloomberg abandoned these 32 districts in favor of regions. Additionally, each school will have to choose one of [...]

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