Senate President Steve Sweeney has an idea to cover N.J.’s $40 billion pension liability: have the federal government float us…
Remember that movie "Race to Nowhere" where students are bullwhipped by mountains of schoolwork, tests, and stress, while their teachers…
The Wall St. Journal reported yesterday that the Wisconsin Education Association has “lost more than half of its 40,000 members…
Yesterday NJ Spotlight ran my column on why N.J. suburban, middle-class high schools need to raise academic expectations for students…
Here's my new NJ Spotlight piece:Are we being over-optimistic when it comes to how well NJ’s middle-class students are being…
lana Dubin Spiegel @ilanadspiegel@educationweek 175 civil rights groups oppose high-stakes, test-based accountability #ESEA j4jalliance.com/media/openlett… @J4J_USA @SavOurSchoolsNJWow! 175 civil rights group…
Props to Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), who withstood pressure from NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ and stood strong against an…
The state deadline for filing for school board candidacy is Monday. Here's the lowdown from New Jersey School Boards Association.…
Great read in The Atlantic about the alignment of disability advocates and civil rights leaders on the necessity of maintaining federal oversight,…
Today’s Wall St. Journal reports that Newark Public Schools currently has 453 staff members in the pool of “educators without…