Education Law Center has filed an OPRA request for “detailed documentation about the Lakewood school district’s plan to reconfigure school grade assignments and for academic
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature’s budget debate: NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers, a centerpiece of the
The NJ DOE released the 2010-2011 School Report Cards yesterday, with a few new bells and whistles. One new feature is accurate graduation rates, previously
Well, it’s not quite a trip to the Promised Land but the New Jersey Department of Education did announce that today it will release the
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than the
Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov. Christie and Ed. Comm. Cerf,
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its scores on science exams given to 8th graders. Overall, reports the Wall St. Journal, “32% of students
That’s the topic for my post today at Newsworks WHYY. Teaser: These changes are serendipitous for those of the education reform persuasion, and dovetail smoothly
NJ School Boards Association has a cogent explanation of the new way NJ is calculating graduation rates: Previously, the graduation rate for a given year
Check out my new column at NJ Spotlight on the some similarities and differences between the radical public school overhaul in Philadelphia and the muted