Ocean Hill Collegiate is one of a small number of New York City public schools that is excelling at what naysayers say is impossible – achieving school-wide academic excellence among poor, black children.
The injustices inside some New York City schools today rival those in the 1950s.
The NAACP filed a complaint arguing for more diversity in admissions to New York City’s 8 elite public schools. Will it harm Asian-Americans?
It’s time for New Yorkers to pick high schools and middle schools. Here is a guide to some often overlooked options — high performing majority black schools.
While I welcome the NAACP complaint [about specialized high schools], the problem is not an entrance exam that black and Latino youngsters took for years and ‘passed.’