Check out my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks

In the Wall St. Journal this week, Robert Coulson of the Cato Institute writes,America's public schools have warehoused three million…

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Tenure Update: Time for a Photo Op?

The Star-Ledger fact-checked Senate President Steve Sweeney’s assertion that Jersey’s new tenure reform legislation “modernizes” tenure but doesn’t eliminate it. …

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Ripped From the Headlines

A leading school labor leader Thursday compared public education to the auto industry and warned about 700 northern Illinois school…

14 years ago

Quote of the Day

From today's New York Times on the "whittling down" of No Child Left Behind through waivers granted to (at last…

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WHYY Post: Statehouse Democrats Want to Cut All Funding for NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers

My post today at WHYY's Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature's budget debate: NJ's Regional Achievement…

14 years ago

Newark Advisory Board Votes for Adults, Not Children

Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has overruled the district Advisory Board and now some of the city’s most successful charter schools…

14 years ago

NJ’s Sort-of-Funded Anti-Bullying Mandate

Back in January, the Council on Unfunded Mandates ruled that NJ’s highly-touted Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying legislation – which compelled…

14 years ago

Teaching Poor Kids: Is the Obstacle the Poverty or the Pedagogy?

One dispute over tying teacher evaluations to  data on student growth has been the charge that teachers who are effective…

14 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

The Record Editorial Board discusses NJ’s “remarkable compromise in forging an overhaul of tenure laws to make it easier for…

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Quote of the Day

NJ Spotlight buy furosemide online furosemide online generic reports this morning that the Opportunity Scholarship Act "is likely dead for…

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