For this third edition, Clara and her staff visited nearly 500 of New York City’s elementary schools and chose 200 of the best schools to recommend. This essential guide uncovers the "inside scoop" on schools (the condition of the building, homework, teacher quality, etc.), includes a checklist of questions to ask on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and "magnet" programs.

New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide

Hemphill, Clara

Wheaton, Pamela

Education & Teaching

Teachers College Pr

New York City has some of the best public high schools in the country - as well as some of the worst. This essential guide provides everything parents need to know in choosing a high school that is just right for their child. Interviews with teachers, parents, and students uncover the "inside scoop" on schools, including atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, and more. It also provides the hard facts on: 
· School performance data: graduation and four-year college rates · Average SAT scores of students · Class size and total school enrollment · Ethnic make up: Black, White, Hispanic, Asian · Safety: disciplinary suspensions and incidents · Admissions requirements 
Hemphill's first two books, The Parents' Guide to New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools and Public Middle Schools, New York City's Best won critical acclaim. New York Magazine's Barbara Ensor called her work "thoughtful, well-researched…required reading." The New York Times columnist Robert Lipsyte said: "It is part consumer guide, part urban plan. Without public schools, Hemphill maintains, the dream of multiethnic democracy will live on only through jury duty and subway travel."

New York City's Best Public High Schools: A Parents' Guide

Schools & Teaching

A completely revised new edition of Clara Hemphill's New York City's Best Public Middle Schools. Reflecting recent changes brought about by Mayor Michael Bloomberg's reorganization of New York City's public school system, this Third Edition features all new reviews of 74 of the city's best public middle schools. Providing everything parents need to know in choosing a middle school that is just right for their child, New York City's Best Public Middle Schools: A Parents Guide features interviews with teachers, parents, and students to uncover the inside scoop on schools including atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, and more.

New York City's Best Public Middle Schools: A Parent's Guide

Biederman, Marcia

Apsel, Deborah

Wayans, Jacqueline

Teacher College Press

If you lived anywhere else in the country, you would probably send your child to your neighborhood high school. In New York City, it’s much more complicated than that. But what parent has time to research hundreds of school options? To help you choose a high school that is just right for your child, Clara Hemphill and her colleagues at Insideschools visited nearly all of the city’s 400 high schools. This essential revision of the critically acclaimed parents’ guide features new school profiles; invaluable advice to help parents and students through the stressful admissions process; and new sections on alternative schools, vocational schools, and schools for students learning English. Featuring interviews with teachers, parents, and students, this guide uncovers the “inside scoop” about school atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, class size, and much more.

Parenting & Relationships

Parenting

Teachers' College Press

Reflecting recent changes brought about by Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s reorganization of New York City’s public school system, this Third Edition features all-new reviews of 74 of the city’s best public middle schools. Providing everything parents need to know in choosing a middle school that is just right for their child, New York City’s Best Public Middle Schools: A Parents’ Guide features interviews with teachers, parents, and students to uncover the “inside scoop” on schools―including atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, and more.

New York City's Best Public Middle Schools: A Parents' Guide

Reference

Catalogs & Directories

Completely revised with new profiles of more than 150 elementary schools and pre-kindergarten programs! 
For nearly 2 decades, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a good public school for their child. This Fourth Edition features all-new reviews of more than 150 of the city’s best public elementary schools, based on visits and in-depth interviews by the InsideSchools staff. This essential guide uncovers the “inside scoop” on schools (the condition of the building, special programs, teacher quality, and more), includes a checklist of things to look for on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and stand-alone pre-kindergarten programs. It also provides the hard facts on:
<ul>
<li>Total school enrollment</li>
<li>Test scores for reading and math</li>
<li>Ethnic makeup</li>
<li>Who gets in? </li>
<li>Admissions requirements</li>
<li>Teaching methods and styles</li>
<li>Special education services</li>
<li>How to apply</li>
</ul>

New York City's Best Public Pre-K and Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide

Raschka, Lydie

A Brighter Choice: Building a Just School in an Unequal City

In cities across the United States, affluent White newcomers are moving into historically Black neighborhoods, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for public schools. In many cases, the newcomers either avoid their local schools or use their political power to push aside families who have lived in the neighborhood for years. But there’s a third possibility, one that can bring greater equity, and that’s the story of this book. 
At Brighter Choice Community School, a public elementary school in Brooklyn’s rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant, a group of mostly Black parents, led by PTA president Keesha Wright-Sheppard, is learning to share the space with White newcomers. Outside the school, high rates of homelessness and a global pandemic that disproportionately hit people of color make it hard for children to succeed. Inside the school, hurt feelings and misunderstandings push parents apart. But the parents, working through conflicts to build a community of mutual trust and respect, are planting the seeds of interracial solidarity to fight for better schools for all. Whether these seeds flourish and grow depends on whether parents of all races, knowing the history of injustice and inequality, can learn to come together to overcome the past. 
Book Features: Follows a multiracial group of parents, working with an energetic principal and staff, as they learn to bridge the deep divides of race and class. Shows why school integration is so difficult to achieve, even in integrated neighborhoods. Traces the roots of inequality and the history of failed school reforms to address it. Incorporates social science research to show the impact of school and neighborhood conditions on academic achievement. Argues that socioeconomic integration offers one of the best hopes for improving schools, but only if school leaders take care not to marginalize low-income children. Draws on interviews with parents and staff, school visits and observations, newspaper articles, scholarly books, and policy reports on school segregation.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

In cities across the United States, affluent White newcomers are moving into historically Black neighborhoods, presenting both a challenge and an opportunity for public schools. In many cases, the newcomers either avoid their local schools or use their political power to push aside families who have lived in the neighborhood for years. But there's a third possibility, one that can bring greater equity, and that's the story of this book. At Brighter Choice Community School, a public elementary school in Brooklyn's rapidly gentrifying Bedford-Stuyvesant, a group of mostly Black parents, led by PTA president Keesha Wright-Sheppard, is learning to share the space with White newcomers. Outside the school, high rates of homelessness and a global pandemic that disproportionately hit people of color make it hard for children to succeed. Inside the school, hurt feelings and misunderstandings push parents apart. But the parents, working through conflicts to build a community of mutual trust and respect, are planting the seeds of interracial solidarity to fight for better schools for all. Whether these seeds flourish and grow depends on whether parents of all races, knowing the history of injustice and inequality, can learn to come together to overcome the past. Book Features: <ul> <li>Follows a multiracial group of parents, working with an energetic principal and staff, as they learn to bridge the deep divides of race and class.</li> <li>Shows why school integration is so difficult to achieve, even in integrated neighborhoods.</li> <li>Traces the roots of inequality and the history of failed school reforms to address it.</li> <li>Incorporates social science research to show the impact of school and neighborhood conditions on academic achievement.</li> <li>Argues that socioeconomic integration offers one of the best hopes for improving schools, but only if school leaders take care not to marginalize low-income children.</li> <li>Draws on interviews with parents and staff, school visits and observations, newspaper articles, scholarly books, and policy reports on school segregation.</li> </ul>

Describes and rates over one hundred of the city's best public elementary schools according to test scores, school performance, grade levels offered, class size, admission requirements, and teaching methods

The Parents' Guide to New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools

Soho Pr Inc

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New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide

New York City's Best Public High Schools: A Parents' Guide

New York City's Best Public Middle Schools: A Parent's Guide

New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide

New York City's Best Public High Schools: A Parents' Guide

New York City's Best Public Middle Schools: A Parents' Guide

New York City's Best Public Pre-K and Elementary Schools: A Parents' Guide

A Brighter Choice: Building a Just School in an Unequal City

A Brighter Choice: Building a Just School in an Unequal City

The Parents' Guide to New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools