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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NJ Insurance Group Issues Recommendations for School Safety
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NJ Regulations Set a High Bar For School Safety; Is it Enough?
My weekly WHYY Newsworks post looks today at the regulations regarding public school safety and security in New Jersey. We set a high bar here,
Ravitch and Lewis Vilify Teachers (Non-Unionized Ones, Anway)
Everyone’s talking about the way Diane Ravitch linked the heroism of Sandy Hook’s teachers to their union affiliation, and the school’s non-charter status. At best,
Diane Ravitch Jumps the Shark
The esteemed historian begins her blogpost, “The Hero Teachers of Newtown,” with a moving account of the courage of each teacher at Sandy Hook Elementary
Cerf Stomps on the Third Rail of Tenure Reform
From NJ Ed. Comm. Chris Cerf’s just-released Education Funding Report: It is the Department’s hope that in considering changes to the SFRA funding formula, the
Sunday Leftovers
Today it’s too hard to just start breezily listing this week’s education stories. So let’s start with this. NJ Spotlight looks at schools still struggling
“Reimagining” Newark’s Public Schools as Partners in Choice
A few thoughts on Cami Anderson’s recent “data-driven, frank discussion” of the gaps between Newark’s traditional public schools and alternatives offered to children: charters and
Via Newark Public Schools: a “data-driven, frank discussion”
Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter schools and found that, while
The “Dirty Little Secret of Education Reform”
In next week’s New Yorker, Louis Menand has a wonderful discussion about homework, riffing off French President François Hollande’s recent announcement at the Sorbonne that
NJSBA Slams NJ DOE’s Proposal to Augment Superintendent Power
New Jersey School Boards Association has no truck with a new DOE proposal that would let school superintendents unilaterally call for school board meetings. Currently,
Quote of the Day: Changing Demographics in Teacher Unions
Michael Stryer, a high school teacher in Los Angeles (currently on leave) is a member of United Teachers Los Angeles and director of the Teachers
Where Do Chris Christie’s Likely Challengers Stand on Education Issues?
That’s the subject of my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks, which looks at the differing views of Cory Booker, Barbara Buono, Dick Codey, and Steve
NJ State Board of Ed Flummoxed by Camden’s 49% Graduation Rate
At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the dismal high school graduation rate
Big Drop in NJ School Board Election Spending
From the Star-Ledger buy topamax online https://cbtreatment.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/topamax.html no prescription pharmacy : Spending on school board races across the state this year fell to $597,000, a
What Can NJ Really Learn from the CREDO Report on Charter Schools?
Here’s my latest post on WHYY’s Newsworks on the CREDO study, which examines charter school performance in NJ. Last week Stanford University’s Center for Research
Sunday Leftovers
New Jersey is starting a Teach for America-ish program, creating a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship Foundation to recruit “top collegiate science and
GOP Blunders: Disability Rights and Education Reform
Dana Goldstein has a great piece up about the Congressional Republican caucus’s inexplicably stupid blocking of the U.S.’s adoption of the U.N. Convention on the
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U.S. students knew only about half of what they were expected to on a new vocabulary section of a national exam [NAEP], in the latest
New Data on New Jersey’s Graduation Rate
The big NJ education story today is the release of graduation statistics from the DOE. Coverage from NJ Spotlight (which links to all the data),
Post-Sandy, Sen. Ruiz Wonders about School Budget Revenue Gaps
Senator Teresa Ruiz, chair of the Senate Education Committee, had a question for Ed. Comm. Chris Cerf at yesterday’s Senate hearing on Hurricane Sandy’s impact
