Yesterday I wrote a response to Bob Braun’s attack on New Jersey’s Assistant Commissioner Bari Erlichson. Braun did acknowledge errors – not to me (which
It starts here: Last week, the Paterson Charter School of Science and Technology held its annual enrollment lottery. There were 1,437 applicants for 99 openings,
A clip from The Record editorial, but read the whole thing: IT’S WRONG to make a school exam public before students take it. And those who
Much of the analysis of the public education system in Newark feels unreliable; everyone, it seems, has an agenda. “New Jersey and local school officials
Amid all the mythology about PARCC tests – teachers will be fired! students won’t graduate! the tests cost too much! they undermine instruction!* – news
Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had introduced its Core Curriculum Content
It starts here: On Monday the Courier-Post asserted that Camden Public Schools conceals an “eye-popping” and “unique” percentage of high school seniors who graduate through
I graduated from Camden schools, and the quality of the education my children were getting has been far below what I received. I’m glad that
The National Alliance for Public Charter Schools released its sixth annual report this week that ranks state charter laws. (See Ann Whalen for an overview.)
The big education reform news in New Jersey yesterday was the release of an Appellate Court ruling in litigation pressed by Education Law Center and Save