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A Long Time Coming: CCNY Among Nation’s Top Colleges
Historic CCNY has joined The Princeton Review’s list of top colleges (Photo by Isobel Markham) It was Freshman Convocation at City College of New York, and its Hamilton Heights campus was adorned...
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“David Va al Colegio”: School Offers Nation’s First Dual Language Program for...
Natalia Aredondo speaks English with student in new dual language program at P.S. 112 in East Harlem. (Photo by Charles Eichacker) The red necklace Mrs. Gonzalez wore on the first Wednesday of class...
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Co-location in Harlem Schools: Crowded Hallways, Shared Classrooms
Wadleigh and Frederick Douglass students share the same entrance as they walk to school. (Photo by Crystal Kang) Students at Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing Arts in Harlem stampede out of...
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Harlemites #RockThoseReads
Joe Rogers (right), Total Equity Now founder, distributes flyers at West 125th Street and Broadway during Literacy Across Harlem Day. (Photo by Kaitlyn Wells) “Excuse me, do you know what today is?”...
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“I Left My Pull Dans la Classe”: Struggling French Charter School Uses...
Pre-K students learn their vowels at the French American Charter School. (Photo by Anjli Parrin) “Monsieur, I left my pull dans la classe,” a second grader tells Monsieur Gaboriau in a French-English...
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City College Students Protest Tuition Increases
City College student Shaila Bora speaks out against CUNY tuition increases during a campus rally to “mourn the death of higher education.” (Photo by Marielle Mondon) Halfway through a Thursday...
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Federal Grants To Help Uptown Charter Schools Expand
A geography lesson at one of Democracy Prep’s schools, Harlem Prep Middle School in East Harlem. (Photo by Trishula Patel) The Democracy Prep charter schools in Harlem will more than double their...
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To Unionize or Not to Unionize: Uptown Charter Teachers Weigh Options
The United Federation of Teachers Manhattan office provides support for teachers petitioning to unionize. (Photo by Crystal Kang) When Amber Charter School opened its doors in 2000, a teachers’ union...
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Students and Teachers Travel Hours to Attend Top Public School in East Harlem
Students at P.S. 171 raise their hands in English class. (Photo by Yue Qiu) Gezelle Ramos wakes up each morning at 4:45 to ready her children for school. While the oatmeal steams on the stove and the...
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Uptown Elementary Schools Struggle to Meet State Phys Ed Mandates
Harlem Link phys ed instructor Matthew Greene teaches a class of kindergarteners. (Photo by Isobel Markham) Antonnia Powlett’s son Simeon is a typical seven-year-old boy. He loves the Giants and the...
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