New York City’s eight specialized high schools consistently rank among the best-performing secondary schools in the nation. Each year, around 25,000 of the city’s top students sit for the ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — New York City students who are looking to gain entrance into New York City’s specialized high schools ... an in-school day testing date on Wednesday, Nov. 8.

An education panel approved a contract Wednesday night for a digital entrance exam to the city’s specialized high schools after ... Advanced Placement and New York state tests have all ...

Many of the NYC mayoral candidates voiced support for the SHSAT and said they’d expand the number of specialized schools.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed a plan to overhaul admissions to New York City’s elite public high schools, inviting some praise and even more backlash from students, parents and lawmakers ...

A push to digitize the entrance exam to New York City’s specialized high schools is reigniting a long ... which shakes out to about $3.8 million each year, for an already controversial test.

Derek knew nothing about the specialized high schools or the admissions test when he began school in New York City in seventh grade. In early conversations about his high school options ...

Instead of using a multiple-choice English and math exam, called the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test ... and we need to start talking about the failing K-8 education system in New York City.” ...

A surprisingly tender one-man show guides us through the dubious business of tutoring the children of striving New York ... high schools. Often the remit was to help them study for the Specialized ...

It's that time of year again, one that New York City parents and students ... That's when the high school application and registration for the Specialized High Schools Admissions Test (SHSAT ...