Morrow said teachers in iZone schools strive for interactivity. There is also an extra hour in the school day for an enrichment period, where students can seek out individualized or small group help.

Last fall, twelve companies from New York City iZone’s Gap App Challenge won the opportunity to test their tools in NYC classrooms, with the main goal of collaborating with and collecting feedback ...

Schools in the iZone have an extra hour of school every day, offer bonuses to the top teachers and leaders to work there, and provide additional coaching for those teachers. It costs an average of ...

Ten years into his 12-year tenure as mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg and his then education chief, Joel Klein, kicked off a program that they hoped would transform education in the city by ...

I conflated the iZone with the Empowerment Zone, a system of earned autonomy launched in 2005, but Stacey Gillett, deputy chief of innovation at the NYC Department of Education’s Office of ...