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QOD:”Entrenched Interests Seem More Concerned about Explaining Away Failures of Public Schools” Than Supporting Innovation

Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on "the union war on charter school philanthropists":Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps.…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

I'm at #ewa (Education Writers Association convention) this week in Boston. Blogging will be light. Feel like chatting? Give me…

9 years ago

New Research from ETS Confirms #OptOutSoWhite

In "Opt Out: An Examination of Issues," a peer-reviewed paper that is part of ETS's Research Report Series, Randy E.…

9 years ago

QOD: Derrell Bradford Considers Weingarten’s Absolution of Teachers to Educate Poor Kids

From "Randi Weingarten's Ugly Endorsement and the War Against Poor Students:"The facts about kids in the country’s public schools are…

9 years ago

What School Systems Can Learn from Hospitals about Outcome-Based Evaluations

NJ Spotlight reports that the quality of  New Jersey’s hospitals, once rated 5th in the country,  dropped to 22nd place…

9 years ago

Dear South Jersey Communities United Protesters: Take the Bus Back Out of Camden

Camden City's Board of Education will meet at 5:30 today in public session for local residents to hear the latest…

9 years ago

QOD: Cory Booker on How “Stern Loyalty” to Newark’s Children Demands Educational Transformation

From the new report Better Options, Better Futures: Eight Years of the Newark Charter School Fund:Our stern loyalty toward our…

9 years ago

A Lesson from Newark: Charter School Parents No Longer Political Weaklings

As the Star-Ledger notes in today's editorial, last week's Newark School Advisory Board election was a game-changer, with historically sparse…

9 years ago

What’s the Role of School Superintendents in Opt-Out Fever?

Last week I looked at the how differences in  state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New…

9 years ago

More News Trickling In Re: Newark School Board Election: Top Two Vote-Getters Support School Choice

For many years Newark school board elections were won by power brokers, not parents. For example, last year PolitickerNJ described…

9 years ago