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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Teachers Less Supportive of Their Unions
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Earl Kim, the highly-regarded Superintendent of Montgomery Schools, is leaving, word has it, to run a school for low-income youth in Hawaii. The Star-Ledger reports
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Once Again, Willingboro vs. Moorestown
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NJ Report Cards Cause Consternation Re: “Real” Cost Per Pupil
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
Parent Responds to Changes in U.S. DOE Special Ed Accountability
A parent of a child on the autistic spectrum responds to the U.S. DOE’s plans to “help close the achievement gap for students with disabilities
“Wonder of Wonder, Miracles of Miracles”
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
Asking the Right Questions About Class Size
My post today at WHYY Newsworks looks at the recent class size kerfuffle instigated by Mitt Romney’s visit to a Philadelphia charter school: Mitt Romney
Site of Worst Education Inequities: Between Districts, Not Within Them
Today’s New York Times op-ed page features a must-read by James E. Ryan, online pharmacy purchase orlistat online generic author of “Five Miles Away, a
Damn Those Evil Hedge Fund Managers
Today’s Star-Ledger describes a program in Newark, the Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), that offers highly-motivated students an intensive remediation program in order
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An audit of the NJ DOE’s oversight of charter schools finds that there is, according to NJ Spotlight, “a host of problems,” including a lack
Romney Needs an I.E.P.* on School Funding
The big education story today is Mitt Romney’s “education platform,” which was unveiled, curiously, during a speech to the Latino Coalition (where he didn’t mention
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How to Reconcile Education Reform and the Democratic Party Base?
Patrick McQuinn of Drew University has an important article in EducationNext that asks, “are advocacy organizations” – like Democrats for Education Reform, 50Can, Students First,
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From today’s New York Times editorial by David Kirp on the resegregation of America’s schools and the burden that places on poor minority children: A
Sunday Leftovers
Charter School Update: The Star-Ledger, in an article today, refers to “the Christie administration’s increasingly firm stance against low-performing charters.” In that context, the trustees
Why We Need Tenure Reform
1) New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff Masin has ruled that even though a special education teacher mocked one of his students, called him a
