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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Check out the new study, “Teaching Math to the Talented,” by Eric Hanushek, Paul Peterson, and Ludger Woessman from EducationNext (hat tip: Flypaper), which compares
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Seventy districts in New Jersey have applied to join the Interdistrict Public School Choice Program, opening their doors to students from other districts. Valarie Smith,
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Out-Going NYC Schools Chancellor Joel Klein on NPR’s “All Things Considered” just quoted Albert Shanker, legendary president of The American Federation of Teachers: As long
The Star-Ledger Drinks the Anti-Charter School Koolaid
There’s a must-read study out from Advocates For Children From New Jersey called “Newark Kids Count 2010: A City Profile of Child Well-Being.” buy proscar
Reactionary “Activists”
Bob Braun’s Star-Ledger column – “N.J. Activists, Parents Warn Against Promoting Charter Schools as Fix for Education System” is a bit of a cipher. Public
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Today’s New York Times on a new report from the Council of the Great City Schools that finds that middle-class black boys do no better
DOE Strategic Blunder
It’s been a bad week for the NJ Department of Education. Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks’ conspicuous absence at last week’s NJEA Convention produced volumes of
Sunday Leftovers
All eyes are on the saber-rattling between Gov. Christie and NJEA’s leadership. Scheduled to speak on Friday at the teachers’ convention in Atlantic City, Acting
Drilling Down Disabilities Data
NJ Spotlight points today to a stock-in-trade assumption regarding the role of students with disabilities in a school’s efforts to make “Adequate Yearly Progress” on
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AYP Data Up
The Department of Education has just posted No Child Left Behind Data for 2010, which indicates which schools made Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) and which
Standing Up the NJEA
Everyone’s atwitter over Education Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks’ letter to NJEA President Barbara Keshishian buy propecia online https://pathways.org/wp-content/uploads/cache/wpml/twig/propecia.html no prescription in which she declines to attend
Fordham’s Flypaper Weighs in on Superintendent Caps
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Christie the Socialist
One of the tenets of education reform is fiscal and academic accountability, which has become a mantra of Chris Christie’s education agenda. Therefore, the announcement
Speaking of Superintendent Salary Caps:
Superintendent Mark Raivetz took a salary freeze this year and earns $177,629 — more than $20,000 above the planned cap. Raivetz has indicated he’ll leave
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The great tragedy of the education debate in America is that most people know at least the basics of how to turn around our urban
Sunday Leftovers
Andrew Rotherham at Eduwonk online pharmacy https://cbtreatment.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/amitriptyline.html with best prices today in the USA on Gov. Christie’s Teaching Effectiveness Task Force: Chris Christie, New Jersey’s
School Choice Pile-Up
Here’s an interesting contrast regarding our newly-authorized Interdistrict Public School Choice Program. This week two wealthy NJ districts (both have DFG’s of I on a
Asbury Park Follow-Up
Earlier this week we took a somewhat grim look at Asbury Park Public Schools, including the results of their 2007 QSAC monitoring, the instrument the
Education Effectiveness Panel Named
Gov. Christie has announced the nine members of the new Education Effectiveness Task Force. Chair is Brian Zychowsky, Superintendent of Schools in North Brunswick Township.
