Adams: Online Parent-Teacher Conferences Still Have Issues. They’re Still Better Than Dashing Through School Halls Trying to Be in 3 Places at Once
Sound Off — NYC Students & Masks: Amid Child Vaccinations, Teachers and Parents Make the Case For Why Schools Should (and Shouldn’t) Roll Back Rules
Adams: With Schools Open During Early Voting, NYC Families Ask — Why Are Voters Allowed In While Parents Are Kept Out?
Adams: NYC Gifted and Talented Schools Say They Want Diversity. But They Don’t Do Much to Help Students Get There
Adams: Will New York City Parents Strike on the First Day of School — and Beyond — If There’s No Option for Remote Learning?
Adams: In Demanding Identical Results, and Treating Education as a Zero-Sum Game, Has New York City Actually Given Up on Raising the Bar For All Students?
Adams: Simone Biles Demonstrated that If You’re in an Untenable Situation, You Have to Get Out. The Same Goes for Public School Families
Adams: Chaos, not Classrooms, for NYC Parents Wanting Summer School for their Kids. What Does this Portend for September?
Adams: More Gifted & Talented Classes Would Help School Diversity in New York City, Not Harm It. Here’s Why
Adams: Do New York City’s Mayoral Candidates Care About Education? Judging From Last Week’s Democratic Debate, You’d Never Know It
Adams: Questionnaires? Interviews? A Single Yes-No Question? Parents Say NYC Pre-K G&T Admissions Is Now a Confusing Mess
Adams: What My Daughter’s High School Wait List Numbers Drove Home for Me About the Demand for Charter Schools among New York City Families
Adams: With Enrollment Down, New York City’s Schools Have a Golden Opportunity to Integrate. Will They Take It?
Adams: Let’s Put Every Student in a Gifted & Talented Lottery. We Could Expand Opportunity to All Kids — and Show How Low a Bar We Actually Set
Adams: The Lottery — Parents Fear the Looming Horror of NYC’s New School Admissions Process
Adams: Whatever You Do For Your Child, You’ll Be Wrong — Why I Gave My Son Permission to Drop Out of High School
Adams: How to Avoid Integrating Schools — While Ending Up With Segregated Classrooms
Adams: If the Needs of the Many Outweigh the Needs of the Few, Why Isn’t NYC Focusing on Kids Who are Learning Remotely?
Adams: Grading NYC’s New Grading System — What Will Giving Marks Based on ‘Equity, Motivation and Academic Integrity’ Mean for Fairness?
‘I May Have to Leave the City I Love’: Parents in New York City, Grappling with a Dysfunctional School Shutdown and the Uncertain Academic Year Ahead, Voice Frustration — and Fear
Adams: How to Avoid Needless COVID School Closings & Treat All New York City Students Equally
Adams: No Test Scores? No Problem — How NYC Can Screen for Admissions Without Exams and Find Out What Students Have Actually Learned
Adams: COVID-19 Learning Loss Will Be Devastating for NYC Students. But the School System Will Come Out Looking Just Fine
Adams: Children Don’t All Learn the Same Way, or on the Same Timetable. So Why Should Our Education System Be One-Size-Fits-All?
Adams: NYC’s Mayor and Chancellor Want to Reopen Schools. The City’s Teachers Union — and Parents — Aren’t So Sure
Adams: In New York City, Being Stuck in a Failing School Is Suddenly Not a Good Enough Reason to Transfer
Adams: How Can NYC Halt an Exodus of Students Worried About Going Back to School in the Fall? Create a Remote Learning District
Adams: A Math Problem No One Talks About — Why Does the Number of Low-Performing Kids at ‘Good’ Schools Always Equal the Number Who Receive Free Lunch?
Adams: For Equity’s Sake, Let Kids Who Like Remote Learning Keep Doing Class Online and Let Kids Who Need In-Person Teaching Have the Schools
What Happens If NYC Eliminates Screened Schools? Amid a Pandemic and Canceled State Tests, Parents Worry About Equity in the District — and Being Locked Out of the Discussion
Should I Stay or Should I Go? New York Families Debate Fleeing the City Over COVID-19 School Changes
Adams: Will NYC Students Have to Repeat a Grade? Can They? Should They? Or Should We Rethink What Being in a Grade Means?
Adams: From Freedom to Focus to Technical Troubles, How 1.1 Million Students and 75,000 Teachers Are Dealing With Remote Learning in NYC
Adams: NYC School Admissions, Attendance and Coronavirus — How Parents Forced the City to Change Its Applications Policy
Adams: A Revolutionary School Zoning Plan That Can Increase Diversity, Boost Funding and Make Parents’ Lives Easier
Adams: With Diversity Plans That Shift Kids From ‘Bad’ Schools to ‘Good’ (and Vice Versa), NYC Admits There’s Not Enough ‘Good’ Education to Go Around
Adams: An Open Letter to Families Who Don’t Believe in School Choice — Because They Don’t Realize They Already Have It
Adams: Forward-Rolling Ahead or Spinning Their Wheels? A Question of Equity vs. Equality for NYC School Kids
Adams: NYC School Kids Get Some Holidays Off but Not Others. Why Not Give Students Personal Days for Their Celebrations Instead?
Adams: Michael Bloomberg Made Sweeping Changes in NYC Schools as Mayor. What Might He Do as President?
Adams: In Making NYC School Districts Develop Diversity Plans, It Turns Out the City’s Idea of Diversity Isn’t So Diverse After All
Adams: Have We Been Misled All This Time About What New York City’s Gifted & Talented and Specialized HS Exams Really Measure?
Adams: Parents Weigh In on ‘Modest Proposal’ to Ditch Gifted Testing in NYC & Give Accelerated Ed to Any Child Who Wants It
Adams: A Modest Proposal for Turning NYC School Admissions Upside Down — & Letting Parents Decide the Education They Want for Their Kids
Adams: 3 Things New York City’s Mayor and Chancellor Can Do Today to Integrate the Public High Schools
Adams: New York City Has a Plan for Completely Integrating Its Schools. Great. Now Can We Talk About Why Kids Aren’t Learning?
Adams: Think Replacing NYC Gifted & Talent Programs With Magnet Schools Will Fix Low Student Achievement and Segregation? Think Again
NYC Has a Gifted Education Crisis. Amid Calls to Expand and Diversify Testing, a More Shocking Stat: 78 Percent of Kids Who Qualify Are Denied Seats at Top Schools
Adams: Everything NYC Schools Chancellor Richard Carranza Doesn’t Understand About His Own District’s Gifted & Talented Program