Response to NJEA President’s Attack on PARCC Testing

Today the Star-Ledger features an op-ed by NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer who argues that “PARCC itself is a flawed assessment, and it…

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QOD: Chait on How Teacher Unions Are Blocking Obama’s Plan to Give More Money to Poor Schools

From today's Daily Messenger:Congress is embroiled in an education policy fight that, while it revolves around esoteric policy details, profoundly…

10 years ago

My Equity Button

Princeton High School students sure do love their Advanced Placement courses. According to New Jersey D.O.E. data, last year 97.3%…

10 years ago

Need Another Reason to Fix N.J.’s School Funding Formula? Free Pre-School in “Gold Coast” Hoboken Where Homes Sell for $6.5 Million

From today's Wall Street Journal:Hoboken has reached a new benchmark: the sale of a house for $6.5 million.  online pharmacy…

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Sunday’s Anti-Charter School Rally in Trenton Misses The Point

Today’s Trentonian online pharmacy super-kamagra for sale no prescription has an article about the “Rally for Equity" yesterday afternoon "when…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

In case you missed it, read my analysis of Newark's charter parent empowerment in The 74 online pharmacy prograf over…

11 years ago

Update to Yesterday’s Post on N.J.’s Waning Resistance to PARCC versus N.Y.’s Sustained Opposition

Speaking of N.J.'s growing acceptance of standardized tests linked to college and career-ready standards, today's Asbury Park Press reports,In the…

11 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: Re: N.J.’s Mediocre PARCC Results, Don’t Shoot the Messenger

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11 years ago

New York’s Love Affair with Standardized Testing (as long as you call them Regents)

The Canandaigua Daily Messenger (an upstate paper in the lovely Finger Lakes region of New York State) reports today that…

11 years ago

New Column at The 74 on Newark’s April Surprise and the Rise of Charter School Parent Power

It starts here:New Jersey may be the Garden State, but don’t think you’ll find any country bumpkins in Newark, the…

11 years ago