Dialogue of the Day

Governors Brendon Byrne and Tom Kean discuss the pending State Supreme Court decision on the Abbott funding case: online pharmacy…

16 years ago

What Was the Historical Purpose of Teacher Tenure?

Tenure emerged in response to the spoils system in public schooling, under which teachers were hired (and fired) as a…

16 years ago

Quote of the Day

There is this ‘bless your heart’ problem in the teaching profession. It’s, ‘This is so hard, so bless your heart…

16 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

“I am afraid that doing more with less is the new model in New Jersey.” That’s Jennifer Keyes-Maloney, an assistant…

16 years ago

Asbury Park Follow-Up

The State Monitor who oversees Asbury Park Public Schools has decided to close Barak Obama Elementary School. According to the…

16 years ago

Public Unions Go Postal

NJEA President Barbara Keshishian has a piece in the Star-Ledger today lambasting the Jersey paper for a general lack of…

16 years ago

Is Democrat/Republican a False Dichotomy? (It is in Education Reform)

Kevin P. Chavous, Chairman of the Black Alliance for Educational Options, has a piece in the Daily Caller that advocates…

16 years ago

Teacher Incentives Bill

Assemblywoman Annette Quijano, a Democrat in Union, has introduced a two-bill package that would pay teachers more to work in…

16 years ago

Quote of the Day

[T]eaching to the test is not necessarily a bad thing if the content on the test is a representative sample…

16 years ago

We’re Off-Balance

The head of PISA, the international achievement test, says that the U.S. needs to “raise the status of the teaching…

16 years ago