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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The Wrath of NJ’s Anti-Charter Movement
“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.”Mr. Spock, “The Wrath of Khan.” Charter school news is making the rounds today in
Question of the Day
What gets people so angry at the idea of incorporating a degree of professional accountability into teaching and administrating? My column Friday at NJ Spotlight
Dueling Charter School Ledes
Here’s the opening of today’s Star-Ledger story on performance in NJ’s charter schools: As Gov. Chris Christie prepares to announce new charter schools approved to
Sunday Leftovers
Confidence Booster of the Day: A new member of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Star-Ledger, knows nothing about the Abbott rulings, which
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We shouldn’t be afraid of teacher quality metrics just because they have flaws. Instead, we should continually refine those metrics, expect superintendents to articulate local
Primer on Christie’s Ed Reform Proposals
Gov. Christie’s State of the State speech was widely praised as diplomatic if short on specifics regarding education reform. Here comes the specifics, gleaned from
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my column today at NJ Spotlight on merit pay: “Our problem in New Jersey is not the lack of a merit system. Our problem is
Abbott Update
New Jersey Newsroom online pharmacy stromectol for sale no prescription pharmacy is reporting that the NJ State Supreme Court has just appointed Superior Court Judge
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Liam Julian at Fordham’s Flypaper blog considers Gov. Christie’s comment during his State of the State speech that “teaching can no longer be the only
Sustaining Pre-School Gains
An article in yesterday’s Trenton Times discusses the “huge achievement gap” in newly-released standardized test scores between black, Hispanic, and low-income kids, and white and
Ed Reform Highlights from Christie’s State of the State
Surprise Guest: Michelle Rhee, “who is sitting next to Mary Pat…Michelle, I want you to count NJ among those who are finally putting students first.”
School Finance Fisticuffs
There’s a bit of a contretemps boomeranging around cyberspace between Mike Petrelli of the Fordham Institute and Flypaper and Bruce Baker of Rutgers and SchoolFinance101.
We’d Rather Be in Philadelphia
The Press of Atlantic City has an expose on a construction project at Egg Harbor High School in Atlantic County, which one contractor has called
What Happens When Joel Klein Has Time on His Hands?
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Weighing Small Scale V. Large
Andrew Rotherham (see post below) was actually responding to a piece by Rishawn Biddle at Dropout Nation on our national fetish with scale. Biddle just
On Scaling Up Successful Educational Models
Here’s Eduwonk’s Andrew Rotherham who ponders online pharmacy buy zovirax no prescription pharmacy how consistently wrong education’s wise men and women generally are about scale.
Sunday Leftovers
Yesterday’s New York Times lead editorial, “A New Jersey Reckoning,” weighs in on the Education Law Center’s suit against the State, which attempts to enforce
Newark’s Education Politics
Dana Goldstein’s overview in The Nation of the politics of the Mark Zuckerberg donation to Newark Public Schools is a good read, if a bit
It’s Not The Money
There’s two big education stories circling today: the NJ Supreme Court’s hearing on whether Gov. Christie’s school aid cuts violated the Constitution, and the most
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Despite an influx of new funding to New Jersey’s poorest urban school districts following the state Supreme Court’s Abbott rulings, student achievement levels remain mostly
