NYC students ahead of the class on SATs
New York City’s high-school seniors made slight but significant gains on their SAT exams this year — scoring higher in all three sections than they have in years. On an...
View ArticleNew York City’s misleading graduation rates
The Good: The latest figures show the four-year graduation rate for New York City high-school kids hit an all-time high this year: 66%. The Bad: More than half these graduates...
View ArticleMom attempts to get a perfect SAT score
Ethan, a happy-to-lucky junior with a B average and so-so extracurriculars, had a tendency to . . . coast. If he wanted to get into his chosen colleges — and...
View ArticleNorth Korea test-fires projectiles into Sea of Japan
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s Yonhap news agency says North Korea has test-fired three short-range projectiles into the Sea of Japan. The South Korean Defense Ministry couldn’t immediately confirm...
View Article‘Diversity’ drive for top NY high schools is really anti-diversity
Last week, the City Council held a hearing with an eye on changing fundamentally how eight selective public high schools choose their students. Yet this drive to increase diversity at...
View ArticleLunatic exams: City’s unfair ‘gifted’ tests
Each year the test-takers file into the room. They’re dressed in layers, clutching No. 2 pencils, ready to take the test that could decide their entire educational future. Days, weeks,...
View ArticleMinority teachers file $300M suit claiming licensing test bias
An old teacher-licensing test that blacks and Hispanics had trouble passing poses a grave threat to city coffers — $300 million, according to internal budget documents obtained by The Post....
View ArticleKnicks thrilled Raptors gave up on Bargnani
TORONTO — Blame Canada. Knicks coach Mike Woodson is still struck with wonder over his Italian/Canadian import, Andrea Bargnani, calling the Rome native a “triple threat’’ and installing him as...
View ArticleGoogle unveils self-driving car
In the future, GM could stand for Google Motors. The tech giant is building a fleet of electric-powered, self-driving cars in its quest to take human error out of the...
View ArticlePeeved law students sue after exam software fails
PORTLAND, Ore. — Law students taking the bar exam have it tough: Three years hitting the books. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in tuition. And all of it potentially wasted...
View ArticleCity IT worker fired for cheating on certification exam
An IT honcho for the city’s public hospitals got caught cheating on a basic certification test for a new, internal computer system — and got bounced from his $189,000 gig,...
View ArticleMayor de Blasio’s latest bid to fake school success
Mayor de Blasio pretends this week’s test scores for city students are “great news.” Black is white, too. Students “raised up their test scores,” the mayor noted, a development with...
View Article‘Fixing’ New York’s tests to please the teacher unions
Well, that didn’t take long: MaryEllen Elia took over as state education commissioner just two months ago — and the teachers unions are already pulling her strings. Elia just unveiled...
View ArticleCity kids’ scores drop on new Common Core algebra exam
The city’s high-school students were stumped by the Common Core algebra exam this year. Fueled by poor algebra-test scores, only 55 percent of kids passed the math exams, down 6 points from 2014,...
View ArticleFirefighter who flunked physical injured 10 days into job
A firefighter who was allowed to graduate the Fire Academy despite failing physical tests has already gone out on medical leave — just 10 days into the job, The Post has learned. Probationary...
View ArticleGood grades for failing kids: Another scam from the city’s schools
When the facts don’t suit you . . . lie. That’s how the city schools operate, a new study shows. The StudentsFirstNY study cites “massive grade inflation” that serves to “conceal underperformance” by...
View ArticleReport shows city kids who pass class are failing state exams
More than 150 low-performing schools where less than 10 percent of the students passed this year’s state math and English exams claimed sky-high pass rates for class work in the same subjects,...
View ArticleObama’s new cancer Rx is a war on men
If you’re at risk of prostate cancer — in other words, if you’re male — the best place to be is the United States, where survival rates are highest in the world. But not for long, if the Obama...
View ArticleDid the teachers unions just break Andrew Cuomo?
‘The single best thing that I can do,” Gov. Cuomo said last year, is “break what is in essence one of the only remaining public monopolies”: the teachers union. Oops: Looks like the union broke him....
View ArticleBlood lab poses ‘jeopardy to patient health’: regulator
Deficient practices at a lab operated by blood-testing startup Theranos pose “immediate jeopardy to patient health and safety,” the U.S. government’s Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services said...
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