The College Board, which provides the SAT tests every year as part of a range of offerings, has described this year’s results as “stable” compared with last year.

More high school students took the test than in other years — 1,518,859 — and more of those students than in the past are non-white or non-middle-class, the [...]

Author Charles Murray has released his new book, “Real Education: Four simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality,” just in time for September.

Murray wrote about the current state of the American education system last year in the Wall Street Journal. He said he felt that educators and politicians refused to face some simple [...]

Parental involvement in education is essential for student achievement. Education experts are adamant that the home/school connection needs to be nurtured if schools want their students to do better in class and in standardized testing.

But there’s involvement and there’s involvement. What if parents and schools disagree? Then it’s time to call in your friends.

One of [...]

A Rockland BOCES investigation has found that North Garnerville Elementary School principal Martha Powers improperly opened the sealed elementary school English tests before they were to be given to students in January.

An anonymous letter to the state Education Department was responsible for the investigation, which was made by BOCES on behalf of the state.

No child’s [...]

Families interested in environmental-based decisions in the back-to-school aisle or who want a nice begin-the-school gift for an eco-interested teacher can check out “Eco-Friendly Families,” a book out this month by Alpha Books.

Author Helen Coronato talks about ways to use objects around the home for back-to-school instead of buying new. She also shows parents how [...]

Bryce Golden-Chen, a 2005 graduate of Clarkstown South High School and New City resident, was chosen as one of 85 people to work as interns at this year’s Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colo.

Golden-Chen will work with what has been named the sustainability team, helping reduce the physical impact of the 2008 convention on the [...]

The Stuttering Foundation every year reminds educators that they may have a child with the speaking issue in their classroom and that they should be prepared.

“Kids aren’t the only ones who are apprehensive on the first day of school,” the Foundation’s press release says. “Teachers are, too. If a student stutters, should you call on [...]

An appalled mother has reported that she spotted a huge cockroach at the Clarkstown North High School annex this morning when she dropped her child off at summer camp.

The school has been infested for years, but it reached a crisis stage last fall when the conditions were bad enough to cause students to stage a [...]

Got an e-mail from a rep from Franklin Electronics plugging three things your student must have to begin school this year.

He’s not plugging fancy backpacks or droopy drawers. All three products are electronic verbal word machines.
First is the Speaking Children’s Dictionary with spell correction, which allows a child to speak a word into the unit [...]

Mathcounts.org has updated its Web site for the summer to give kids a chance to exercise their minds and play with numbers for fun.

The site, which is designed for middle school kids, includes a problem of the week, allows kids to compete against math-expert kids on the Mathcounts challenge in May, a  new blog on [...]

Howard Sokol, who galvanized members of his South Orangetown school district by insisting he would take his school board seat despite a DWI arrest the day after his election, has bowed to pressure and stepped down.

He was supposed to be sworn in last night during the district’s reorganization meeting. Instead, he made a short statement [...]

After discussion on the relative merits of skim milk and sugar-based flavorings at a recent workshop meeting, the North Rockland Board of Education came down squarely against strawberry flavored milk being served at lunch.

And then further investigation showed that the flavoring actually had fewer grams of sugar than chocolate milk.

So both flavorings will still be [...]

Joseph Renzulli, an education professor and researcher at the University of Connecticut, offers these tips to keep kids busy and academically producutive during summer.

Here are a few paragraphs from a press release sent to us about the subject:

“Although school is on break for the summer, there are still opportunities to engage your child,” says Dr. [...]

Have heard from East Ramapo schools, which served their last raw tomato yesterday and have no plans to serve any more during lunch until any salmonella outbreak has been contained.

North Rockland schools also sent an update: the district will not use the most recent shipment of tomatoes and will send the 10 cases now in [...]

North Rockland, Nyack and Pearl River schools have checked in on the use of raw tomatoes in the school cafeteria.

North Rockland hasn’t taken any particular steps regarding the fruits. Pearl River and Nyack said their food vendors were aware of the issues and have responded:

As of yesterday, Pearl River cafeterias are raw-tomato-free. The food [...]