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New York is about to make its high school diplomas worse than useless
Gone will be the need for students to pass five state Regents exams to earn a diploma.
The zodiac signs with impossibly high — and terribly low — standards
Let's talk about nonnegotiables, quality control, expectations, sliding scales and the gamut of standards. Throughout the zodiac wheel, all among us are capable of raising, or lowering the bar of...
Struggling students? Let them fail — and teach them to overcome obstacles
By teaching kids to work through roadblocks, rather than pretending they don’t exist, they’ll figure out how to transition from childhood “failures” to successes. I know for a fact that’s...
Hunter College shows how to provide excellence and opportunity
Helping to make the American Dream become a reality for tens of thousands of young New Yorkers has been a pleasure and privilege beyond measure.
Take a deep breath, Mr. Mayor, and put the three Rs ahead of yoga
Mayor Eric Adams seems to be less focused on ensuring city children learn their reading, writing and arithmetic.
Parents who back merit, higher standards romp in NYC school council elections
Parents endorsed by a group that supports merit-based education and rigorous standards dominated New York City's parent council elections, results show.
Wake up: Pushing woke standards over meritocracy is going to get us killed
A recent epidemic of airline near-misses deserves both attention and reflection.
China's spy balloon should be a wake-up call — about US schools
The alarming and well-covered story of the Chinese spy balloon highlights the gap in education between the United States and China.
GOP teachers-union lackeys, high standards best serve all and other commentary
Hmm: It’s “difficult” to push for lower taxes and better schools while “seeking approval from a political organization working toward very different goals.”
Doing right by kids — by giving them the grades they've earned
In stark contrast to the regular public system and even many private schools, the Success Academy charter network announced Monday that it will continue giving its students grades this year....
How tragic that NYC's schools have given up on kids
City schools seem hellbent on watering down standards — and students will continue to pay the price. The latest example: a proposed grading policy at the Marie Curie Middle School...
Cuomo's odd blow for accountability in government
We make no apologies for holding state agencies to the highest standards,” said James Allen, Gov. Cuomo’s communications director. That’d be great — if the standard he had in mind...
Saving the Common Core in New York
Good news: The State Education Department is doing the right thing, recommending only innocuous changes to the math and English standards in the controversial Common Core curriculum. But will SED...