Newark Superintendent Is Advising School Board Members to Lie to the State
Just when you think Newark Public Schools District can’t get any more dysfunctional, another perversion pops up. Example: today Chalkbeat reports that during October’s board
2022 Mid-Terms: Winners Listened to 81% of Parents Who Support School Choice
This is a press release from the National Alliance for Public Charter Schools. Education played a significant role in the 2022 election cycle in America—and
Top New Jersey Officials Demand More Honesty and Less Vomit From Murphy’s Education Department As Student Proficiency Plummets
When someone stands up and says New Jersey schools are #1 I have an immediate reaction to vomit because I know that’s not true. That’s
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NYC School Chief Farina Won’t Integrate Segregated Schools Because It Might Affect Teacher Evaluations
I’m guessing that many parents, particularly those of color whose children are consigned to a failing school, left a meeting last night on the Upper
Something is Changing in Newark: The Empowerment of Charter School Parents
On Monday night the Newark School Advisory Board held its monthly meeting, with an added feature of a Newark Teachers Union “walk-in” to protest charter
New Spotlight column: Why is the Opt-Out Movement Outraged at Obama’s Testing Cap?
It starts here buy ventolin online https://crossroads-psych.com/wp-content/uploads/redux/custom-fonts/custom/ventolin.html online pharmacy buy actos no prescription : On Saturday President Obama proposed a “Testing Action Plan” (TAP) that
NAEP and MisNAEPery Roundup
No shortage of eduwonks have opinions on today’s release of 2015 scores on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which showed that American students’
QOD: What Does Merryl Tisch’s Departure Mean for Ed Policy in New York State?
From Chalkbeat, which asks if the pending retirement of Regents Chancellor Merryl Tisch is a victory for labor leaders of the NYSUT (who felt little
Question from Newark Resident: “Are We Working Towards a Brighter Future for Kids or the Teachers Union?”
Last night about 200 opponents to school choice attended/disrupted the Newark School Advisory Board meeting. Here’s coverage from the Star-Ledger and NJ Spotlight. The outcry
Gov. Cuomo to NYS Chancellor Tisch: “Here’s Your Hat, What’s Your Hurry?”
Yesterday Chancellor of the Board of Regents Merryl Tisch announced that she will step down when her term is up this Spring. Tisch has been
QOD; How Anti-Reform Democrats are Like Religious Fundamentalists
Lynnell Mickelsen in the Star-Tribune explains how school choice haters and their “hot house culture of conspiracy theories” reminds her of growing up in a
Student Outcomes in Turnaround Charter Schools: A Case Study in Newark
Critics of charter schools often claim that the reason for some of these independent schools’ superior student growth results from “skimming,” or admitting higher-achieving kids
Sunday Leftovers
Tom Moran at the Star-Ledger nails the pro-public charter zeitgeist in Newark: The failure of urban schools, we are often told, can be traced to
New Assessment Results Prove Our Schools Need to Change, So What’s Next?
Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” we’re all agape as results on new benchmarked assessments roll in
QOD:Great School Leaders Push for Both “Strong District-Run Schools and High Quality Charters”
Peter Cunningham in the Huffington Post: Charter opponents like to label education leaders who are empowering families’ right to choose as “privatizers.” In their dictionary,
Friday Fun: Do you have math anxiety?
From Paul Rudnick’s “diagnostic exam” in the New Yorker: 1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core math problem involving subitizing
From a PBS Fan: Don’t Check Your Journalistic Integrity at the Door
Let me state this for the record: I love PBS. But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist in Seattle who, according to
Duelling School Improvement Plans for De Blasio/Farina and NY Comm. Elia
Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with dueling improvement plans, visited two
N.J. PARCC Drill-Down: Reality Hurts and Common Core Works
The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s first PARCC results yesterday afternoon. No surprises here: student proficiency scores were lower because the tests
QOD: Washington Post Reviews Russakoff’s Book on Newark and Looks Forward
Cory Booker, Mark Zuckerberg, and Chris Christie’s were unable to create a reform program that would serve as a model for all struggling urban school
Newark Mayor’s Attack on Charter Expansion is a Failure of Educational Leadership
Here’s online pharmacy purchase clomid no prescription with best prices today in the USA Newark Mayor Ras Baraka’s response yesterday to the announcement that KIPP
When Complex School Systems Fail
Emmanuel Felton buy bactroban online bactroban online generic at Hechinger reports on the the resignation of Chris Barbic from his position of superintendent of Tennessee’s
QOD: A Camden Mom Explains Why All Parents Deserve School Choice
Jackie Moreno, a Camden mom of six children who attend the city’s public schools, both renaissance (hybrid charter/traditional) and district, explains “why I am grateful
