Melissa Aviles-Ramos, who will take over in January as the next chancellor of New York City’s public school system, is a longtime New York educator who oversaw the schools’ response to the arrival of tens of thousands of migrant children. Her swift appointment on Wednesday to lead the nation’s largest …
Read More »As School Threats Proliferate, More Than 700 Students Are Arrested
Earlier this month, a detective knocked on Shavon Harvey’s door, in suburban Ohio, to ask about her son. The son had sent a Snapchat message from her phone to his friends, saying there would be shootings at several schools nearby. She rushed to the police station, where her son was …
Read More »David Banks, New York City’s Schools Chancellor, to Resign
David C. Banks, the chancellor of New York City’s public school system, said on Tuesday that he would resign from his post at the end of December. The announcement came just weeks after federal agents seized Mr. Banks’s phone as part of a bribery investigation involving his brothers and fiancée …
Read More »Back to School and Back to Normal. Or at Least Close Enough. (Published 2022)
This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. For the last few years, each “back to school” has been radically different. September 2019 was the last return to school before Covid-19 arrived and sent students home, teachers …
Read More »Community Schools Offer More Than Just Teaching (Published 2022)
This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. HARTFORD, Conn. — This spring, Dr. Michael D. Fox elementary school opened a pantry for its students and families. It has fridges packed with prepared food, cupboards filled with …
Read More »Could Tutoring Be the Best Tool for Fighting Learning Loss? (Published 2022)
This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. While scrolling through Instagram, Joi Mitchell saw an ad for Saga Education, a nonprofit that provides high-impact tutoring in schools, and clicked on it. “I was running away from …
Read More »Meeting the Mental Health Challenge in School and at Home (Published 2022)
This article is part of our Learning special report about how the pandemic has continued to change how we approach education. Last year, Leticia Guerrero-Castaneda’s 11-year-old son, Isaiah, was struggling. He was in the fifth grade when the pandemic shutdown occurred, and his reaction was to shut himself down; he …
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