Beth Fertig appears in the following:
Aspire Prep Says It Should Not Be Closed Based on One Bad Year
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Meanwhile, instead of immersing themselves in new strategies — as they had planned over the summer -- teachers said they had to help the substitutes with basic lessons.
Aspire Prep Says It Should Not Be Penalized for One Bad Year
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The Bronx middle school Aspire Preparatory claims it is being unfairly tarnished because of one especially bad year. The school earned its first F last year when a high number of teac...
Parents, Teachers Organize to Save Schools
Sunday, January 22, 2012
SchoolBook.org The campaign is heating up to stop the city from phasing out — or partially closing — 25 struggling schools. Public hearings are being held at 10 of the schools this w...
Bloomberg 'Optimistic' on Teacher Evaluations
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
A day after Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo called on school districts to negotiate new teacher evaluations with their unions or risk losing hundreds of millions of dollars in aid, Mayor Michael...
Gingrich's Plan to Turn Students Into City School Cleaners? Only in the Movies
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich took a potshot at an unusual target in the most recent Republican debate. He lambasted New York City school cleaners for getting paid too much, ...
Gingrich Singles Out City Janitors for 'Absurd' Salaries
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
The Department of Education said the people Gingrich appears to be talking about actually have the title of "cleaners," and are paid about $38,000 annually after two years on the job.
Teachers Trade Ideas on Keeping M.L.K. Fresh
Monday, January 16, 2012
For teachers, the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday comes with some heavy challenges. How do you make an annual lesson plan fresh each year, especially one loaded with issues of race and...
Another Player Enters New York's Advocacy Arena
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
New York's education debate just gained another player, with the arrival of the New York Campaign for Achievement Now. The group wants to make it easier for parents to turn failing sc...
Race to the Top Grants Hit Evaluation Roadblock
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Road blocks in implementing its reform plans means New York can choose to either be "a national leader or a laggard."
Kindergarten Application Season Starts in City Schools
Monday, January 09, 2012
Kindergarten admissions for public schools start this week, as parents begin touring elementary schools. Several districts have had to put children on wait lists in recent years becau...
Success Academy Blitzes Cobble Hill
Thursday, January 05, 2012
The Success Academy charter school network is promoting its new school in Cobble Hill with a bus shelter advertisement, and by hanging leaflets on doors.
Gang Intervention: Keeping Watch in City Schools
Monday, December 26, 2011
A new report finds gang activity has been rising in East Harlem. A local non-profit is calling for multiple solutions, including an expansion of the Department of Education's Gang Pre...
A Sigh of Relief at a School That Was Spared
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
A Bronx elementary school that received an F on its school progress report was among the 47 schools at risk of being closed or phased out next year. But P.S. 277 learned that it has b...
Can School Zones Change?
Friday, December 09, 2011
A reader looking for a new apartment asks: What are the rules and regulations surrounding how often school zones can change?
Between State-City Tensions Lie Plans to Improve Schools
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Part of the recent tension between Albany and city officials is about how the city is using almost $60 million in federal grants to improve 44 struggling schools. The city has a plan ...
Is the Tools of the Mind Curriculum Effective?
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Being able to sit at a desk in kindergarten can be just as important as learning the A B C’s. The curriculum of one popular pre-K program, Tools of the Mind, that tries to enforce tho...
Scores Stagnate in NYC on National Tests
Wednesday, December 07, 2011
Mayor Michael Bloomberg boasted that New York City students made more progress than students in the rest of the state.
A Struggling School Gets a Lift From a Visiting Professor
Monday, December 05, 2011
Prof. Cornel West, the celebrated academic and activist, made a star turn at a Harlem school that may possibly be closed. Although his appearance was planned long before the school re...
Cookie Tray Theory Propels Student to D.C.
Friday, December 02, 2011
Packing cookies in a tray. That is the analogy a Stuyvesant High School senior, Brian Kim, of Bayside, Queens, uses to describe the math project that has put him in the finals of the ...
