What’s Wrong with New Jersey’s Charter School Law?

The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released its sixth annual report this week that ranks state charter laws. (See…

12 years ago

QOD: Bob Braun Rebuts NJEA and SOS-NJ’s Claim that PARCC Tests are High Stakes for Students

Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory…

12 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and SOS-NJ’s Anti-PARCC Campaign Has Nothing to do with Kids

It starts here:The politics of standardized testing has kicked into overdrive in New Jersey. Last Friday the “Study Commission on…

12 years ago

N.J.’s Teacher Pension System Gets a “C”

The National Council on Teacher Quality just released its state-by-state rankings of teacher pension systems, and N.J.'s is mediocre. We…

12 years ago

Give the Cami-Bashing A Rest: Woes in Newark Go Way Back

My new Spotlight column is out today. It starts here:News from Newark Public Schools is alarming. Earlier this month state…

12 years ago

QOD: Teacher Unions Are Alienating “Blue-State Democrats”

I have little affection for Reason, a publication that sings the anthem of "free minds and free markets," but this…

12 years ago

N.J. Reconsiders the “Harrowing Stresses” of “Data-Driven Education”

On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See…

12 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

From today's New York Times on a GOP forum in Iowa where the party's most conservative candidates railed against the…

12 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Christie Gives the Bird to a School Choice Program

It starts here online pharmacy buy bactrim no prescription with best prices today in the USA :"It's a great program,"…

12 years ago

Camden Principal Honored by U.S. Sec. of Education Arne Duncan

Camden Public Schools reports that Principal Keith Miles of Woodrow Wilson High School met yesterday with Sec. Duncan and other…

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