3+ day, 12+ hour ago   (659+ words) Is it the end of the Flynn effect? Decades ago, the researcher James Flynn recognized a secular increase in IQ scores around the world that amounted to humanity getting smarter all the time. Now, technology appears to be pushing the…...

5+ day, 4+ hour ago   (775+ words) New York City’s students will return to school this week — sort of: One in three of them will miss at least 10% of the school year. Chronic absenteeism is the most obvious obstacle to student achievement. Even if the city Department…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (354+ words) It’s hard to square any of Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s socialist dreams with reality, but when it comes to free, universal child care, even he should’ve seen the technical problems looming long ago — and made sure they were fixed by now....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (799+ words) Albany has plenty of ways to punish great students and schools — and now it’s found a new one. When state bureaucrats chose to deny US News & World Report the data it uses to rank nearly 18,000 public schools on its 2026-27 Best…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (240+ words) Mayor Zohran Mamdani is doing the right thing in fighting the City Council’s push to award teaching bonuses outside the collective-bargaining process. The mayor is suing to stop the $10,000 grants to special-education paraprofessionals because they’d set a disastrous precedent. City…...

4+ week, 1+ day ago   (478+ words) We’re on Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s side on this one: United Federation of Teachers chief Mike Mulgrew is trying to blame this year’s dismal public-school scores on state reading exams on how the Department of Education administered the literacy curriculum this…...