Chalkbeat reports today that New York City Bill de Blasio’s $400 million plan to improve the city’s 94 worst high schools and middle schools is
The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact, consistent with highly-regarded NAEP assessments:
The denigration of charter schools often revolves around what Chris calls the “integration imperative”: that school improvement is inextricably linked to an integrated society. Certainly, we
New Jersey’s legislated school funding formula, the 2008 School Funding Reform Act, is a hot mess. In fact, many people would concede (at least behind
That’s the gist of this piece by Mark Hemingway in the Weekly Standard. He writes, In August, [Campbell] Brown organized an education reform forum in
‘The single best thing that I can do,” Gov. Cuomo said last year, is “break what is in essence one of the only remaining public
“It’s our money,” said Jade Thompson, an Ohio Spanish teacher, who makes about $65,000 a year and has challenged mandatory union dues in court. “Think
On Sunday the New York Times featured an article on the demise of the Common Core and PARCC assessments in Massachusetts. According to the Times,
When New York Governor Andrew Cuomo navigated an overhaul of the teacher tenure law last Spring, he took a moribund system – one in which
Beth Hawkins (whom I’m proud to call a colleague) at RealClearEducation on her struggles to meet the needs of her beautiful special needs son Corey