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QOD: What Does Merryl Tisch’s Departure Mean for Ed Policy in New York State?

From Chalkbeat, which asks if  the pending retirement of  Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch is a victory for labor leaders of…

9 years ago

Gov. Cuomo to NYS Chancellor Tisch: “Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry?”

Yesterday Chancellor of the Board of Regents Merryl Tisch announced that she will step down when her term is up…

9 years ago

QOD; How Anti-Reform Democrats are Like Religious Fundamentalists

Lynnell Mickelsen in the Star-Tribune explains how school choice haters and their "hot house culture of conspiracy theories" reminds her…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Tom Moran at the Star-Ledger nails the pro-public charter zeitgeist in Newark:The failure of urban schools, we are often told,…

9 years ago

New Assessment Results Prove Our Schools Need to Change, So What’s Next?

Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called "The Emperor's New Clothes," we’re all agape as results on…

9 years ago

QOD:Great School Leaders Push for Both “Strong District-Run Schools and High Quality Charters”

Peter Cunningham in the Huffington Post:Charter opponents like to label education leaders who are empowering families' right to choose as…

9 years ago

Friday Fun: Do you have math anxiety?

From Paul Rudnick's "diagnostic exam" in the New Yorker:1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core…

9 years ago

From a PBS Fan: Don’t Check Your Journalistic Integrity at the Door

Let me state this for the record: I love PBS.  But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist…

9 years ago

Duelling School Improvement Plans for De Blasio/Farina and NY Comm. Elia

Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City  Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with…

9 years ago

QOD: Washington Post Reviews Russakoff’s Book on Newark and Looks Forward

Cory Booker, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Christie's were unable to create a  reform program that would serve as a model…

9 years ago