Asking The Right Question

Laura Waters May 3, 2010

Are the massive failure rates of students who took this year’s Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) a failure of teaching or testing? That’s the heart

RTTT Update

Laura Waters April 30, 2010

The New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association has an update on our Race To The Top application, due June 1st (32 days from now, but

How We Fail the Kids in Camden

Laura Waters April 27, 2010

My heart is crushed right now just because he worked hard to reach this point,” [Beyonka] Walden-Utley said about her youngest son. “Please understand, I

NJ’s Diploma Scam: Part I

Laura Waters April 19, 2010

Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the results of last January’s Alternate

Grading the Core Curriculum Standards

Laura Waters April 6, 2010

Now that the Common Core State Standards Initiative has released proposed national standards for math and language arts, reviews are starting to come in. The

Schundler and the Reinvented DOE

Laura Waters March 8, 2010

Assembled school board members and administrators main-lining caffeine early Saturday morning in Harrison, NJ got their wake-up call, especially if they thought they’d be drowsing

MSM Gets Spun

Laura Waters February 10, 2010

Okay, okay, we weren’t there. But here’s our best guess: after the NJDOE sent out a press release yesterday offering an call-in news conference with

RTTT as Political Football

Laura Waters December 10, 2009

The Star-Ledger has obtained a November 19th email to Ed Commish Lucille Davy from Susan Cole, head of Christie’s education transition team, telling Davy not