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  1. bad education
    Upper West Side Teacher Has Teens Write Suicide Notes for HomeworkDespite reports of similar assignments angering parents.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  2. bad education
    Bronx Teacher Allegedly Called Student a ‘Negro’They didn’t understand a word she said.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  3. racism
    Worst Teacher Ever Says She’s Too Racist to Have Molested Black StudentBut you can’t go to jail for racism.
    By Adam Martin
  4. bad education
    Brooklyn Students Taught Awful Lesson on SnitchingStaffer says he was fired for reporting misconduct.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  5. bad education
    Harvard Hacks Deans’ E-Mail Accounts, Makes Cheating Scandal Even WorseRather than just talking with their employees.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  6. crimes and misdemeanors
    Bronx High School of Science Coaches Suspended, But Students Shrug at HazingThe parents and administration are taking it seriously, not the kids.
    By Adam Martin
  7. bad education
    Bronx High School of Science Has a Hazing Scandal on Its HandsThree track team members arrested.
    By Adam Martin
  8. bad education
    NYC Teachers Give Fourth-Graders Math Problems About Dead Slaves, WhippingsMath homework gets more interesting, but not in a good way.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  9. labor issues
    Have You Made Alternate Travel Plans for Your School-Age Children?Schools chancellor says a bus driver strike is “not a matter of if but when.”
    By Adam Martin
  10. bad education
    Staten Island Wants Armed Guards in SchoolsThe plan will never get approved.
    By Adam Martin
  11. the third terminator
    Bloomberg Compares Teachers Union to NRAObviously, the teachers are not pleased.
    By Adam Martin
  12. anderson school
    Dream Teacher Suspended for Giving Kids All A’sThe kids were probably fine with it.
    By Adam Martin
  13. bad education
    School District Mad It Paid Someone Not to WorkUnlike teachers in rubber rooms, she chose to skip.
    By Adam Martin
  14. bad education
    Teacher Urged Kids to Buy Homemade Soap in Wildly Unprofitable SchemeHe put his job on the line for about $24.
    By Margaret Hartmann
  15. bad education
    NYC Principal Would Prefer Google Results Please Stop Calling Him a PedophileEmployees of Norman Thomas High School are suing to identify who’s behind defamatory blogs.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  16. bad education
    Shocked Parents Find the Blue Man Group’s Educational Philosophy ‘Unstructured’You don’t say?
    By Joe Coscarelli
  17. kids today
    Stuyvesant Students Really Know How to Sell ‘Slutty Wednesday’ ProtestThey’re fighting against an unjust dress code.
    By Joe Coscarelli
  18. the future is coming
    Peter Thiel Just Named the Lucky 24 Kids He’s Paying $100,000 to Stay Away From CollegeThe man with two degrees from Stanford pays kids not to go to school.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  19. school daze
    What’s Your Major Worth in the Job Market?Petroleum engineering majors make the most, counseling psychology majors the least.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  20. school daze
    New York City’s Answer to Evaluating Teachers: More Standardized Tests for StudentsBecause standardized testing has worked so well in New York City in the past.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  21. school daze
    Liberal Arts Degrees Probably Aren’t Worth the Student DebtSorry, ethnomusicologists!
    By Nitasha Tiku
  22. school daze
    We Are Raising a Nation of FoolsA third of college graduates learn nothing.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  23. bad education
    Sorry, How Well Teachers Perform Doesn’t Count As ‘Private’ InformationAccording to the state Supreme Court.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  24. ink-stained wretches
    Queens Dad Doesn’t Want to Offend the Post, But They Got the Wrong Op in His Op-EdThe ‘Post’ may have substituted its opinion for Brian Rafferty’s.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  25. bad education
    New York City Schools Chancellor Joel Klein Takes Credit for the Work of Asian ParentsNot so fast, chancellor.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  26. bad education
    13-Year-Old Alexa Gonzalez: Poster Child for Unfair Student ArrestsGonzalez was handcuffed and escorted out of school for doodling on her social-studies desk.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  27. bad education
    Laid-off Teachers Show Lack of Initiative When It Comes to Finding JobsSomeone’s getting sent to the guidance counselor.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  28. bad education
    Schools Hoard $10 Billion Stimulus to Rehire Teachers“We can’t treat this money as if it’s a supplement to a jobs bill.”
    By Nitasha Tiku
  29. bad education
    Mayor Bloomberg’s Claims About Closing the Racial Achievement Gap Prove False“The claims were based on some bad information.”
    By Nitasha Tiku
  30. spies like us
    Queens High School Superintendent and Principal Live Out Plot of Lifetime MovieThere’s spying involved. Sexy spying!
    By Nitasha Tiku
  31. bad education
    Happy With the Results of the Goose Genocide, Officials Massacre Perfectly Good FurnitureDespite budget woes, one school lines up expensive furniture for the slaughter.
    By Nitasha Tiku
  32. bad education
    Graduates Lack Basic Skills, and So Do the Companies Hired to Turn That AroundGraduation rates are up, but is anyone learning anything?
    By Nitasha Tiku
  33. bad education
    How Your Elite-Public-School Sausage Gets MadeGood luck getting into Hunter College High School, students who aren’t white or Asian.
    By Nitasha Tiku