Happy New Year! We are looking forward to a year full of growth and lots of relevant educations information for our fellow parents in 2012. We’ve been busy working on updating the site with new features to help you with your school search that will be rolled out soon. In the meantime, we’ll continue to [...]
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Applying to Schools? Then Come to Our School Information and Networking Night
‘Tis the Season…the school application season…and everyone is talking about schools — at the playground, on anonymous online message boards, at the supermarket– but are you talking to the right people and are you getting the right information? How do you know what the right school is? What do you really need to know about tours, [...]
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NYC Test Scores for 2010-2011 School Year
Overall test scores for the 2010-2011 school have been released and are available here. You can find out your child’s individual score by signing in to ARIS and entering their OSIS number. Students scores need to be at Level 3 or higher in order to be grade level proficient. Performance Level Label Level 1 Below Standard [...]
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Full House at our First Ever Admissions Panel
We had a full house at our first ever private schools admission panel in Harlem last night. Thank you to everyone who attended. The discussion got started with tips on how to research and organize your schools and moved into testing, applications, interviews and financial aid. By all accounts the evening was filled with helpful, [...]
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Education News For Week Ending July 31, 2010
Education news this week has been breaking at a dizzying pace. This interview with on Democracy Now with Diane Ravitch, a professor of education at NYU, New York University, and senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Leonie Haimson, a public school parent and executive director of Class Size Matters, is well worth a read. Here [...]
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NY State ELA and Math Test Scores – What Do They Mean?
The New York State English Language Arts (ELA) and Math test scores for the 2009-2010 school year have been released. The document is rather larger so here are the relevant sections for the schools in Harlem and Upper Manhattan: District 3 – pgs. 622-639 District 4 – pgs. 640-654 District 5 – pgs. 655-670 District [...]
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Testing, Testing
If you’ve been reading (and I know you have been), you’ll see that the Board of Ed has announced launched the gifted and talented testing program for the 2010/2011 school year for students entering kindergarden and the primary grades. This testing is not mandatory, it’s only for parents who want their children to qualify for [...]
NYC Gifted and Talented for 2009/2010
The NYC Department of Education has posted gifted and talented information and test dates for the 2009/2010 school year on their website. This test if for applicants who were BORN in 2005, 2004, 2003 & 2002, i.e. for K, 1st, 2nd, & 3rd grade placement in the 2010 – 2011 school year.