New York Daily News
NYC high school graduates not ready for success in college: Report
By  Rachel Monahan
Wednesday, September 23rd 2009, 4:00 AM

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/education/2009/09/23/2009-09-23_hs_grads_not_ready_for_college__report.html

Large numbers of city high school graduates aren’t ready for college, a former City University dean charges in a report to be released on Thursday.

Only 7.5% of grads take all the high school [...]

Volume 22, Number 12 | The Newspaper of Lower Manhattan | August 7 - 13, 2009
I.S. 131’s new summer school program uses computers for games, math drills and to schedule more individual student instructional time throughout the day. The program was set up by Joel Rose of the Dept. of Education.
Learning with computer games at [...]

Program rewards good students
By Manuel E. Avendano, El Diario La Prensa, 6 August 2009. Translated from Spanish by Emily Leavitt.

Dedication to academic studies can yield immediate financial rewards, said educators and students yesterday during an event where students who satisfactorily passed a series of special exams received cash awards.

The program, Rewarding Achievement (REACH), announced that [...]

Charter schools to admit 4-year-olds to kindergarten
BY Rachel Monahan
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Saturday, August 8th 2009, 4:00 AM

Charter schools will admit 4-year-olds to kindergarten for the first time ever this fall, the Daily News has learned.
The new program at Harlem Success Academy II is part of a fight to bring younger students into charter schools. [...]

City students are passing standardized tests just by guessing
by Meredith Kolodner
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER
Wednesday, August 12th 2009, 4:00 AM

Despite Mayor Bloomberg’s plan to end “social promotion,” sixth-graders can score high enough on state English exams to move to the next grade - just by guessing.
The number of correct answers needed to score a [...]

August 11, 2009
Bloomberg Plans to Stop Promoting Low-Performing Fourth and Sixth Graders
By JAVIER C. HERNANDEZ

Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg said on Monday that he planned to make it harder this year for fourth and sixth graders who score poorly on standardized tests to move on to the next grade, extending a policy that his re-election [...]