Beth Fertig

The new scorecard for colleges includes mounds of data about average costs for students, and how graduates fare years later. We offer five tips to making sense of it all.

Elementary and middle school teachers are used to teaching basic writing skills. Now, high school teachers are getting a blueprint to take students' writing to the next level. 

Two-thirds of the school's 330 or so elementary students are in the child welfare system, meaning they're in foster care or getting preventive services to keep them at home.

Mayor Bill de Blasio used the first day of school to tout pre-k, community schools and helping teachers do a better job. Some of the kids he visited were into the play table.

It's back to school time in New York City. Here's our rundown of some of the lively debates and key issues sure to come up this year.

The city is adding over 200 new sports teams in the coming school year. Over half of them will cater to previously under-served girl athletes. 

The unions claim a new state law makes it easier to get rid of ineffective teachers, but two groups of parents say it's not enough.

When Pope Francis visits Our Lady Queen of Angels in East Harlem next month, he'll meet some curious third and fourth graders armed with questions.

Public Advocate Letitia James is suing the Department of Education for not providing air-conditioned buses for students with disabilities, as required by law.

The mayor's strong words follow a drop for him in the polls and rising concern about crime and homelessness.

New proposed legislation would stop the use of grand juries in cases where a police officer is accused of killing a civilian.

 A new web-based system now enables volunteers to use tablets provided by the city as well as their own smart phones to help count every city tree.

Three weeks before school starts, New York City officials say they are well underway to inspecting all of the roughly 1,800 pre-kindergarten classrooms slated to open.

Students in grades three through eight performed slightly better on the 2015 English and math tests than the year before. See how your school scored.

The City Council is taking up legislation requiring building owners to register and inspect their cooling towers, in an effort to prevent Legionnaires' outbreaks.

Two more people died of Legionnaires' disease, bringing the total to 12. But city officials believe the Bronx outbreak is ending because no new cases have been diagnosed since August 3.

While certain Asian immigrants have created a pipeline of tutoring centers, educators say black and Latino students often don’t have the same networks in their communities.

During their annual parade, some Dominicans said the mayor should 'mind his own business' when it comes to the Dominican Republic's policy on Haitian immigrants.

As inspections of cooling towers continue in the Bronx, both Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration are backing reforms to test for Legionnaires' disease.

A new version of a licensing test for teachers got the green light from a federal judge, who found previous versions discriminated against black and Latino applicants.