http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/12/nyregion/graduates-of-elite-new-york-city-public-schools-tutor-students-seeking-admission.html

In Washington Heights, graduates of Stuyvesant High School ( Read more... )

My boyfriend sent me this video by Billy Eichner (with Rachel Dratch from SNL):

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Stuyvesant references start at 2:35.

Speaking of beating up kids from Bronx Science, the New York Times is doing a Q&A with Clara Hemphill about New York City high schools, and predictably a bunch of the questions deal with specialized high schools, and it starts ( Read more... )

Question: What is the actual law that gives Stuy the right to accept only students who pass the entrance exam ( Read more... )

Just a collection of stories found through Google News, because I doubt many of us actually do that on a regular basis... or do we?

Bronfman Fellows
For the 21st consecutive year, The Bronfman Youth Fellowships in Israel has selected a group of 26 high school students to be Bronfman Fellows. [...] Yasha Magarik, son of Larry Magarik and Linda ( Read more... )

Went looking for Stuyvesant-related articles this morning, noticed this little gem. I hadn't actually heard about this before:

At the Head of the Class
So selective that it admits only 3 percent of the kids who take its intense entrance exam, Stuyvesant High School is the pride of New York City's public schools. In the spring of 2006, author and ( Read more... )

I wouldn't exactly call the admissions test "mind-bendingly difficult," but whatever.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/18/education/18schools.html?ref=nyregion&pagewanted=all

( article below the cut )

The NYT reports on a scoring quirk of the admissions exam.

Gothamist points out the following quote:
According to American Guidance Service, 52 students - or one-fifth of 1 percent of the more than 25,000 eighth graders who took the test last year - scored perfectly on one part. Of these students, one scored in the 50 percentile on the other part ( Read more... )

For those who haven't been keeping up with the news:

Sought-After High School Admitted Too Few, Officials Say

May 20, 2004: New York City education officials said yesterday that Stuyvesant High School, one of the city's most sought-after specialized schools, should have admitted about 100 more students to its incoming class for September and that ( Read more... )

From today's NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/nyregion/18stuyvesant.html

I remember when Teitel was a mere physics teacher.... he acted like a total pervert in class, as I recall!!

Here's something I thought about yesterday ( Read more... )