Many news outlets covered this week's release of N.J. student PARCC scores. See the Star-Ledger, NJ Spotlight, the Asbury Park Press, and MyCentralJersey. Bottom line: the…
From Chalkbeat:Outgoing state Board of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch took a swipe at New York City’s school-improvement program Thursday, saying…
Chalkbeat reports today that New York City Bill de Blasio's $400 million plan to improve the city's 94 worst high…
The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact,…
The denigration of charter schools often revolves around what Chris calls the "integration imperative": that school improvement is inextricably linked…
Jim Schutze has a provocative column in the Dallas Observer (hat tip: Chris Stewart) called “Teacher Unions and Koch Bros.…
New Jersey’s legislated school funding formula, the 2008 School Funding Reform Act, is a hot mess. In fact, many people…
That's the gist of this piece by Mark Hemingway in the Weekly Standard. He writes,In August, [Campbell] Brown organized an…
‘The single best thing that I can do,” Gov. Cuomo said last year, is “break what is in essence one…
“It’s our money,” said Jade Thompson, an Ohio Spanish teacher, who makes about $65,000 a year and has challenged mandatory…