December 3, 2015

Bill de Blasio Stays in the Slow Lane on School Improvement

Laura Waters December 3, 2015

Chalkbeat reports today that New York City Bill de Blasio’s $400 million plan to improve the city’s 94 worst high schools and middle schools is

N.J. PARCC Scores: All Our Kids are Above Average (well, mostly)

Laura Waters December 3, 2015

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact, consistent with highly-regarded NAEP assessments:

Bill de Blasio Stays in the Slow Lane on School Improvement

N.J. PARCC Scores: All Our Kids are Above Average (well, mostly)

BREAKING: Statement from JerseyCAN on State’s Long-Delayed Release of Student Test Results

NJEA: Murphy’s Elimination of Teacher Performance Test Is a Major Win for Students and Educators

Murphy Signs Bill Eliminating EdTPA Test for Teacher Certification

LILLEY: Blue States Had More School Closures and More Learning Loss — Just Like NJ under Gov. Murphy

Lamont Repollet and the 64 Floor: How Did He Raise Asbury Park’s Graduation Rate? Let’s Do the Math.

Too Much Fun to Pass By: Planet Princeton Trips Up Public School Choice Opponent Julia Sass Rubin

Braun Crosses the Line

Ed Comm. Repollet Goes For the “Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations” but State Board of Education Refuses to Play – For Now.

Opting-In as “the Great Equalizer”