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“Brooklyn teen, discouraged from getting into Stuyvesant, now MIT-bound” A Stuyvesant High School senior who was once told getting into the elite institution was “practically impossible,” just beat the odds again — landing a spot at the top college in the world. Sebastian Acevedo — who grew up with an Ecuadorian immigrant mom and a…
“Let’s hope GOP nominates Trump, Schiff’s unlawful Twitter threat and other commentary” Lefty: Let’s Hope GOP Nominates Trump The New Republic’s Michael Tomasky wants Republicans to nominate Donald Trump for president in 2024. Why? “He’s become the most beatable” Republican, “by far.” If independents abandon Trump as they did his midterm candidates, there’s “no chance”…
“‘Student’ threatens to ‘shoot up’ elite school in NYC” A person claiming to be a student threatened on social media to “shoot up” an elite high school in Brooklyn — and police are now investigating the sick posts, cops said Sunday. “I’m going to shoot up my school Millennium Brooklyn High School New York with…
“#Inside the sordid world of tutoring kids of NYC’s 1 percent” Blythe Grossberg had been working with a 14-year-old student named Lily on a paper about “Romeo and Juliet.” Grossberg, a writing tutor and learning specialist, was satisfied with the completed assignment, in which Lily argued that 13-year-old Juliet should have married neither Romeo nor…
“#Attacking test-in schools is anti-Asian” On Wednesday, a handful of students — including a couple of Brooklyn Tech kids — demonstrated against the specialized high school entrance exam in front of Stuyvesant HS in Lower Manhattan. Teens Take Charge, the group sponsoring the event, chose Stuyvesant as the venue because it is 70 percent Asian…
“#Letters to the Editor — May 5, 2021” The Issue: Schools Chancellor Meisha Ross-Porter’s call to eliminate admissions tests at elite schools. Seth Barron was exactly right — the test to enter elite high schools is not the culprit (“Wrong Culprit,” PostOpinion, May 1). The culprit is parents who do not make sure their children…
“#NYC DOE official called parents who support specialized high school tests ‘bigots’” A Department of Education official lashed out at supporters of the specialized high school entrance exam, calling them “bigots” in an online screed. The accusation was leveled in the comment section of a since-deleted Facebook post of a New York Post article about…
“#Don’t blame the test for lack of minorities at elite NYC high schools” The class of ninth-graders that in September will enter the city’s eight “specialized high schools” — entry to which is determined solely by doing well on a standardized test — will be substantially less black and Latino than before. Per Department of…
“#Killing the elite-schools exam is just shooting the messenger” New chancellor, same old response to the vexingly few black and Hispanic students scoring seats at the city’s top public high schools: Like her predecessor, Schools Chancellor Meisha Porter blames the test itself. In the latest round of acceptances, Asians won 53.7 percent of all seats;…
“#Letters to the Editor — April 20, 2021” The Issue: A letter from a parent who pulled his child out of Brearley School over its race-focused curriculum. Thank you to Andrew Gutmann for saying the truth about the lessons children are learning in schools at all levels of education (“Schooled!” April 17). I was taught…