Three years after a landmark agreement to cut class sizes in New York City's public schools, classrooms are swelling across the city, a result of budget cuts and spending decisions that have reduced the teaching force.
The Assembly's budget resolution does the best job of securing financing down the line for the schools, classrooms and science labs that Mayor Bloomberg has on the drawing boards.
On her website, she states, "Harry Potter is being used to teach and promote witchcraft, Wicca, a U.S. [Government] recognised religion, in our schools, classrooms, and to this entire generation".
Before the introduction of large-scale state testing, this expense and complexity meant that education research was dominated by smaller-scale studies of the experiences of single schools, classrooms and students.
In the span of one year, I earned a Masters degree in teaching and had the chance to spend every day in Chicago Public Schools classrooms learning from a master teacher.
The in-depth, shoe-leather reporting and analysis that is our hallmark can only be accomplished when administrators have a green light to talk freely about their work, and when principals feel free to give writers access to schools, classrooms and teachers.
