Just when you thought it was safe to maintain your level of cynicism about politics, news sources are reporting today (NJ Spotlight, Star-Ledger, Wall Street
The Hoboken Board of Education, writes attorney and charter school parent Paul Josephson in yesterday’s Star Ledger, is using school district funds to prevent Hoboken
Read the whole thing, but here’s the opening: Opposition to state testing comes from the far left and the far right. It comes from parents
Buried at the bottom of today’s New York Times front page article on the opt-out movement is this: Many local parents, however, said they had
In New Jersey, where education reform disputes seem especially shrill, the focus has been all-things-PARCC. Readers know where I stand: common standards and annual aligned
Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired by Senator Teresa Ruiz, released
From JerseyCAN’s new report, “The State of New Jersey Education, 2014″ In the class of 2014, 93 percent of white students graduated in four years,
I’m a bit confused by the PARCC editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight. Scott A. Oswald, superintendent of Collingswood and Oaklyn public schools, thinks that the
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard, in an editorial in the Courier Post, describes the state of district schools upon his arrival almost two years ago: “Transform”
It starts here: The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) just released its annual “State of Preschool Yearbook” and New Jersey, as usual, gets