Met Museum Has Most Visitors in 40 Years
The Metropolitan Museum announced on Thursday that it had broken records: 5.68 million people visited its Fifth Ave. location, its Cloisters museum and its gardens in the past fiscal year. The number...
View ArticleNew York City Schools, In Almanac Form
It stands to reason that students with high attendance rates have a better chance of succeeding at school.With data from the city's Independent Budget Office, the value of attendance can be measured...
View ArticleTruant Students Are Heeding Their Wake-Up Calls
Taking encouragement from the results of the first year of its efforts to improve student attendance, the city is more than doubling the number of public school students who are assigned attendance...
View ArticleFewer Students Repeat a Grade This Year
A third of New York City elementary and middle school students who failed state exams last spring were not promoted to the next grade level this school year, a decrease from the year before, when...
View ArticleShould Kids Miss School for Family Opportunities?
11:47 a.m. | Updated I'm just back from nine days in Israel, my first visit in 20 years. The trip covered some predictable highlights –- the Old City of Jerusalem, Masada and the Dead Sea, the Bahai...
View ArticleSaul Gootnick: 'You Have to Do Baby Steps'
In Principal’s Office, a regular feature of SchoolBook, a city school principal is interviewed for insights into school management and the life of a school leader. What do you think makes a good...
View ArticleDespite End-of-Year Confusion, Attendance Was on Par With Last Year
The New York City public school year ended Wednesday with a sizable portion of students making a last-minute showing to collect report cards, help dismantle classrooms and bid a final farewell to...
View ArticleWake-Up Calls Include Reformed Students
Students who need a little nudge to get to school in the morning can sign up to receive wake-up calls from the city. The phone call initiative allows students to sign up to receive recorded messages...
View ArticleAttendance Rises Slightly on Day Two of School Bus Strike
The Department of Education said student attendance was a little higher on the second day of the school bus strike, about 90 percent overall. But schools serving students with serious disabilities...
View ArticleBloomberg Tweaks Approach to Improve School Attendance
With six days to go before the start of school, Mayor Michael Bloomberg is launching one more effort to combat chronic absenteeism before leaving office at the end of the year.He unveiled on Tuesday a...
View ArticleSchool Was Open, But No One Went
Many New York City schools had to change up their approach to classwork and rejigger schedules to accommodate lower-than-usual attendance on Wednesday.The city's daily attendance data show that only 47...
View ArticleEducation Motivation
Imagine: a high school where students are on a first-name basis with their principal and teachers, have personal advocate counselors, and where a failing grade doesn’t mean trouble, but an offer of...
View ArticleMany NYC Students Take Another Snow Day
Fewer New York City public schools students went to class on Monday than normal, but attendance was still higher than other days this year when weather affected attendance.About 83 percent of students...
View ArticleNYC Posts Lowest School Attendance of the Year
Fewer than half of New York City public school students attended classes Thursday, making today the lowest attended school day this year. That's according to preliminary attendance data reported by the...
View ArticleHip Hop Therapy Boosts Attendance at Bronx High School
J.C. Hall, a social worker at Mott Haven Community High School, was busy after school this year with a group of students who wrote rap music. He coached them through writing rhymes, voicing them,...
View ArticleA School's Strategy to Improve Attendance Starts At 7 a.m.
At P.S. 156 Waverly in Brownsville, Brooklyn, Principal Beverly Logan started the year thinking about how to tackle a 40 percent chronic absentee rate. That means that well over a third of her students...
View ArticleEducators Struggle To Keep Track Of Kids During The Pandemic
With attendance down compared to the pre-pandemic average, educators are scrambling to account for students and keep them engaged.
View ArticleNYC Schools With Worst Attendance Are In COVID Hot Zones
New data shows that nearly half of New York City public schools have had attendance rates during the COVID-19 crisis that fall below what’s considered acceptable by education experts. In dozens of...
View ArticleAttendance Down on Last Day of Class
New York, NY — Having the last day of class on a Monday did lead to lower attendance for the New York City public schools. The Department of Education says attendance was less than 75 percent --...
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