In a ninth-grade classroom in NYC's South Bronx, students studied refugees for several weeks -- and learned so much more than that.
How do you judge if a school is good or bad? Are test scores a reliable measure of success? We went to the South Bronx to find out.
Starting almost a decade ago, New York City began closing factory-style high schools that high enrollment and low graduation rates. Small schools are taking their place, but is this a good thing?
New York City is the largest public school system in the U.S. and Joel Klein ran it for 8 years. How were his first couple of years on the job? We reported on Klein and his reform efforts in 2005.
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