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How Low Can He Go? Christie and the Common Core

Just when you thought it was safe to maintain your level of cynicism about politics, news sources are reporting today…

9 years ago

Paging Gregor Mendel: Untangling Anti-Charter Rhetoric

The Hoboken Board of Education, writes attorney and charter school parent Paul Josephson in yesterday's Star Ledger, is using school…

9 years ago

QOD: Star-Ledger Editorial Board Nails Those Who Would Sabotage PARCC Data

Read the whole thing, but here's the opening:Opposition to state testing comes from the far left and the far right.…

9 years ago

NY Times Article Buries the Lede

Buried at the bottom of today’s New York Times front page article on the opt-out movement is this:Many local parents,…

9 years ago

Note to PARCC-Bashers: Annual Testing Won’t “Resegregate Schools”

In New Jersey, where education reform disputes seem especially shrill, the focus has been all-things-PARCC. Readers know where I stand:…

10 years ago

N.J. Senate PARCC and Superintendent Salary Cap Update

Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired…

10 years ago

QOD: N.J.’s High School Achievement Disparities

From JerseyCAN's new report, "The State of New Jersey Education, 2014"In the class of 2014, 93 percent of white students…

10 years ago

Would Eliminating Student PARCC Outcomes from Teacher Evals Make Everyone Happy?

I’m a bit confused by the PARCC editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight. Scott A. Oswald, superintendent of Collingswood and Oaklyn…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, in an editorial in the Courier Post,  describes the state of district schools upon his arrival…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: N.J.’s School Funding Woes Extend to Preschools

It starts here:The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) just released its annual “State of Preschool Yearbook” and New…

10 years ago