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New York Daily News reporter spends time with Principal Davis and a few teachers as they prepare for the start of school.  

New York Times reporter Liz Robbins spent time at P-TECH on the first day of school, following up on an earlier feature of student Radcliffe Saddler.

This is an account from City Tech professor Aaron Barlow, who has assisted with curriculum development at P-TECH.

Mr. Davis expresses his vision for the school in this post on the IBM Smarter Planet blog.

Event at Long Island University to raise awareness of Brooklyn's Smart Scholars schools, including P-TECH

Principal Davis writes in Schoolbook about how to break the code for teaching and learning.

Daily News reports from our mentoring kickoff, in celebration of our comprehensive mentoring partnership with IBM.

"Entrusted with the responsibility of overseeing the success of the school is founding principal, Rashid Ferrod Davis, an education veteran with over 15 years of experience as a teacher, assistant principal and, most recently, the principal of the highly celebrated, Bronx Engineering and Technology Academy (BETA). BlackEnterprise.com spoke with Davis recently to address the academic and socioeconomic challenges of students, promoting entrepreneurship, and his plans for P-TECH."

"The creation of grades "13" and "14" allows the school to focus on career training, according to P-Tech Principal Rashid Davis. The six-year curriculum is heavy on co-op and internship opportunities, especially during those final two years. Each student is assigned an IBM mentor, so that students can put a face to the profession they are pursuing."

IBM Executive Stan Litow writes about P-TECH in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, arguing that cities around the country should form public-private partnerships to tackle major problems--much like P-TECH.

Mayor Bloomberg delivered his 11th State of the City address on Thursday, Jan. 12. In the speech, held at Morris High School in the Bronx, he announced plans to develop three new schools inspired by the P-TECH model. These schools will cover grades 9-14, with different industry partners and career paths. We're honored to serve as a model for other schools in the city and around the country

CNN Radio visited P-TECH to learn more about our unique model, the innovative curriculum, and how we work with our partners to deliver results for all students. As Mr. Davis says: “In order to be competitive, students definitely need to leave with job-readiness skills so that way they can really have a shot at middle- and high-income lifestyles.”

This eWeek article discusses the mission behind P-TECH and similar initiatives around the country: preparing underrepresented populations for careers in technology. As the Mayor said in his State of the City address a few weeks ago, “It’s a new way of thinking about secondary school based on today’s economic realities.”

A recent study has revealed that the so-called "app economy" now totals nearly 500,000 jobs in the United States, all of which have been created since 2007. 9.2% of those jobs are located in the New York metro area. By the end of this school year, students will be working on a platform called AppInventor, which can create apps on Android phones and other devices. We're preparing our students for the app economy.

IBM, working with the New York and Chicago, has released a "playbook" for replication of the 9-14 postsecondary partnership school model. Blending high school, college, and career in one, this is the first step in the development of several new schools following our model. It is a tribute to our work here and our robust partnerships that this model is being learned from and replicated around the country.

Student Council President Brigette Luboa blogs for IBM's Smarter Planet website, with an entry titled "Good-bye safe private school. Hello risky new school with free associate's degree!". Brigette made a transition bigger than most, coming from a small Catholic school where she was one of only 35 students in her 8th grade class. We're so glad that she's excelling at P-TECH so far, a stellar example of our exceptional student body.

9th grader Tahmel Anderson writes about his experience transitioning from a mediocre middle school experience to P-TECH. He is progressing quickly at our school, leaving bad habits from former schools behind--with this well-written entry as all the evidence you need that his skills have improved already.

Six years of high school? Longer school days? A math and science focused curriculum? It might not seem like the ideal high school experience to most, but for Alec Miller, “It’s worth it.”

Mayor Bloomberg writes in The Financial Times about the way forward for globablly competitive cities. He cites P-TECH as one of the major ways that New York is improving the climate for economic development and making education work for all of our young people.

TIME Magazine editor Rana Foroohar writes about how this school has the potential to transform the national conversation about education and economic development. "National competitiveness is the topic of the moment, but so much of the debate about it is conducted at 35,000 feet, at the policy level. In late March, I visited a place in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, where change is happening on the ground."

The Pathways in Technology Early College High School or P-TECH offers a science, technology, engineering and math curriculum that leads to the simultaneous granting of a high school diploma and an associate's degree...The goal is to equip its graduates with the knowledge and skills for entry- and mid-level employment at tech companies. P-TECH achieves this objective by partnering with the New York City Education Department, the New York City College of Technology, the City University of New York and IBM.

Fast Company attended our engineering week event with IBM mentors. What happens when a public school and a huge tech company work together to educate young people? P-TECH!

A reporter for City Atlas attended our event for National Engineers Week with IBM mentors. This profile of the school includes interviews with IBM's Robin Willner and Principal Davis as well as a description of our mentoring program. Check it out!

P-TECH offers a summer school program for all students, including incoming freshmen, but it comes with tradeoffs. Gotham Schools spoke to Principal Davis about the balancing act required to provide these opportunities to our students.

This sure looks like a positive article about the way that P-TECH is transforming education and job preparation...but, tough to be sure, since it's in German. German-speakers, take a look!

Praise for the innovative model reshaping career and technical education in this New York Times article. Hear from some of our brilliant students, who are quoted talking about their experience at this unique school.

In his State of the Union speech, President Obama highlights P-TECH, saying that "We need to give every American student opportunities like this." This Business Week article investigates why the school has received so much attention.

Reported by the Daily News, the city has announced plans to replicate the P-TECH 9-14 model in two new schools set to open in 2013. One school, to open in the Bronx, will focus on health careers; the second, in Queens, will focus on the energy industry.

Governor Cuomo announced that the state will open ten new schools around the state, based on P-TECH's model. The governor's proposed budget includes $4 million in incentives for public-private partnerships aligned with this model. 

On March 12, P-TECH was visited by the foreign press, including members of China's official Xinhua news agency. There is new interest around the world in the work that's happening right here in Brooklyn. Take a look at a different perspective on our school.

President Barack Obama will visit a New York City high school Friday (Oct 25, 2013) where students get an associates degree after six years and a head start at a job with IBM.

It’s a three-year-old school with only about 300 students, but Pathways in Technology Early College High School, or P-TECH, is being called, by a very highly-placed source, the future of America’s presence in the global economy. That source is none other than President Barack Obama.

P-Tech High School student, Leslieanne John, 16, sang the national anthem when President Obama visited the Brooklyn school and proceeded to call out the president's basketball skills by saying 'I could beat you in heels'

President Obama on Friday visited the innovative Brooklyn high school he praised in his State of the Union address this year, to deliver a message about the urgency of education reform in the global economy.

Abbott visited the Pathways in Technology Early College High School on Wednesday to learn about its innovative programs. He said he was considering similar schools in Australia.

  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s visit to Brooklyn’s Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) indicates (once again) why P-TECH is attracting interest from around the world and is being replicated so rapidly. Read about how this innovative education model is helping to connect training more directly to jobs, and why it represents America’s best thinking on reinventing education. 

"IBM is another corporation attempting to address business weaknesses through education. In order to address the problem of finding middle-tier talent, the company started the Pathways in Technology Early College High School (P-TECH) in Brooklyn, New York. Participating students can graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in applied science. IBM guarantees job interviews to qualified graduates of IBM-affiliated P-TECH schools, according to a company news release."