A five-year, $17 million contract for the company that administers the city’s controversial entrance exam for specialized high schools was finally approved Wednesday after a highly-anticipated, ...
A disproportionately low number of Black and Latinx students in New York City were admitted to elite specialized high schools once again, according to the latest statistics provided by the city's ...
What might have been a pro-forma vote on a contract has revived the fierce debate about admissions and equity at New York City’s most elite high schools. Members of the city’s educational oversight ...
When I was younger, I dreamed of going to the High School of American Studies, one of the city’s eight specialized high schools, where admission is based solely on a student’s performance on a single ...
A movement to keep the Specialized High School Standardized Admissions Test as the sole criterion for admission to specialized high schools appropriated the line, “Let my people go,” from the African ...
Inside Bronx High School for Science, a place the vast majority of SHSAT-takers will not end up. You have to hand it to the good folks at the New York Department of Education: Despite years of data ...
One of the most controversial topics in the New York City public education system is the Specialized High School Admissions Test (SHSAT) and its use as the sole tool for admission to the city’s eight ...
EDITOR’S NOTE: This article was originally published by Youth Communications and is reposted here with permission. YC is a nonprofit publisher of teen-written stories and curriculum to help educators ...
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