Trenton’s Special Education Secret (and one piece of its budget crisis): 900 Children Bussed Away Each Day to Other Schools

Everyone knows it but just about everyone is afraid to say it: New Jersey’s school funding formula is irreparably broken.…

11 years ago

Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students…

11 years ago

New Jersey has “Massive Achievement Gap” While New York’s is Only “Large,” via EEI Index

Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and…

11 years ago

QOD: Common Enrollment Offers a “Simple Reform” that Increases Access for Low-Income Families

Marcus Winters notes that "the rapid expansion of charters has done more to spread high quality education in America’s cities…

11 years ago

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders,…

11 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

The New York Times' lede on a story about Montclair Public Schools reveals the writer's misunderstanding of the word "progressive" :Many…

11 years ago

Are Newark’s North Star Teachers Inferior to Teachers in Rich Suburban Districts? Mark Weber says “Yes.”

Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece…

11 years ago

N.J. Suburban Schools are “Not as Good as You Think”

On Monday I spoke at a launch event for Pacific Research Institute's release of a report called "“Not As Good…

11 years ago

Perfect Example of #OptOutSoWhite

In this op-ed a Verona Public Schools mother urges parents to opt their kids out of upcoming PARCC tests because:The…

11 years ago

Headline vs. Lede in NYT Story on Charter School DIscipline Policies

Headline on today's Motoko Rich story: "Charter Schools Suspend Black and Disabled Students More, Study Says"Lede in today's Motoko Rich…

11 years ago