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Schools vary significantly in regard to their homework policies. Some high schools boast that their students do 3 to 4 hours of homework each night, and their school day lasts longer than most. Other schools do not emphasize homework and claim that students can complete their learning at school. Although these examples are the extremes, either case might be appropriate for your child, depending on your child’s interests and your goals.

Standardized test scores provide a consistent way to compare children, classrooms or schools to others within a school, district, city or state. These exams are one measure of what students have learned in their core academic subjects at a given period of time and can be extremely helpful to parents when they are deciding among a group of schools. However, standardized test scores can also be misleading.

All people have different preferences by which they learn material.  Understanding your child’s learning styles will help you determine what type of school is most appropriate for your child. The three commonly accepted learning styles used by educators are Visual, Auditory and Kinesthetic.

Visual Learner: Your child prefers to learn by seeing things written or in pictures. Visual learners are stimulated when their surroundings are orderly and visually stimulating and may be turned off by clutter.

Special Education is defined by law as “specifically designed instruction that meets the unique needs of a child with a 

The New York City progress report provides a number of measures of teacher quality, including the percent of teachers with a doctorate, the percent of teachers teaching in their area of certification and the number of teachers with more than three years of teaching experience. In fact, we have included these measures on our school profiles and comparison charts to allow parents to compare various measures of teacher quality. Unfortunately, these data are not always good measures of teacher quality.