It starts here: Michael Barone once observed that “one of my longtime rules in politics is that all procedural arguments are insincere, including this one.”
The Canandaigua Daily Messenger (an upstate paper in the lovely Finger Lakes region of New York State) reports today that “New York is the state
It starts here: New Jersey may be the Garden State, but don’t think you’ll find any country bumpkins in Newark, the state’s largest city with
From the New York Times Editorial Board: Affluent communities often assume that their well-appointed schools are excellent and that educational malpractice affects only the children
Today is election day in Montclair, N.J. for City Council seats. One of the candidates, Sean Spiller, already beset by scandal, is projected to win
Erica Fortenberry, a seventeen-year veteran traditional Newark school educator, teaches in a school that “works on behalf of its students” but, she notes, “that is
On Wednesday, working my way back to Central Jersey from the annual convention of the Education Writers Association, I boarded an Amtrak in Boston to
And I’ve got a bridge I can sell you. Just as well: the Common Core was fine to begin with. From today’s Star-Ledger: Nearly a
To our fellow New Yorkers: As the statewide English Language Arts and Math assessments for grades 3 through 8 wrap up, it’s important to remember
Last week Mayor Baraka issued a statement on Newark Public Schools’ $72 million budget gap, bemoaning the fact that the deficit will raise local property