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 Student’s Letter to New Ed Commissioner: My Teacher Helps Me Gather the Courage to Speak in a Space That
This letter first appeared in The 74. Dear Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, I had my first Asian teacher
More Shoddy Research From NJ Policy Perspective With a Boost From NJ Spotlight
NJ Spotlight continues to live down to its new reputation as a megaphone for the NJEA and its allies. In a piece entitled “What Has
Why I Went From Voucher Opponent to Voucher Advocate
When I first started this blog twelve years ago as a neophyte in the education reform world, one of the first like-minded people I met
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Christie Charter School Speech Round-Up
Yesterday Gov. Chris Christie gave the keynote at the New Jersey Charter School Association Conference in Atlantic City. (I live-tweeted it if you want to
QOD (and a few notes): PARCC Points Out the “Gross Inequality of Our State’s Public Education System”
Irwin Stoolmacher, a guest columnist today at the Star-Ledger and a resident of West Windsor-Plainsboro, one of N.J.’s wealthy suburban districts, reports that he received
Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?
Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights fifteen school principals and superintendents,
Re: Mayor de Blasio’s Control of NYC Schools: This is Personal
At The 74, Jenny Sedlis takes a cogent look at the current battle over mayoral control of New York City’s public schools as Mayor Bill
A Correction to Diane Ravitch’s Criticism of Campbell Brown
Dr. Diane Ravitch attacked Campbell Brown on her blog last week. That’s old news: she’s had it in for Brown for some time. What’s new
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N.J. School Boards Association reports that the Delegate Assembly voted in favor of a proposal “for the state to continue to provide alternatives to the
The Astroturf Echo-Chamber of Anti-Education Reformers
The Education Writers Association has a blog up today that describes the current battle over standards and assessments, one that reared up its divisive head
Response to NJEA President’s Attack on PARCC Testing
Today the Star-Ledger features an op-ed by NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer who argues that “PARCC itself is a flawed assessment, and it should not be used as
QOD: Chait on How Teacher Unions Are Blocking Obama’s Plan to Give More Money to Poor Schools
From today’s Daily Messenger: Congress is embroiled in an education policy fight that, while it revolves around esoteric policy details, profoundly clarifies the strange new
My Equity Button
Princeton High School students sure do love their Advanced Placement courses. According to New Jersey D.O.E. data, last year 97.3% of students there signed up
Need Another Reason to Fix N.J.’s School Funding Formula? Free Pre-School in “Gold Coast” Hoboken Where Homes Sell for $6.5
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Sunday’s Anti-Charter School Rally in Trenton Misses The Point
Today’s Trentonian online pharmacy super-kamagra for sale no prescription has an article about the “Rally for Equity” yesterday afternoon “when local lawmakers, educators, clergy and
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Update to Yesterday’s Post on N.J.’s Waning Resistance to PARCC versus N.Y.’s Sustained Opposition
Speaking of N.J.’s growing acceptance of standardized tests linked to college and career-ready standards, today’s Asbury Park Press reports, In the second year of the
New NJ Spotlight Column: Re: N.J.’s Mediocre PARCC Results, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
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New York’s Love Affair with Standardized Testing (as long as you call them Regents)
The Canandaigua Daily Messenger (an upstate paper in the lovely Finger Lakes region of New York State) reports today that “New York is the state
New Column at The 74 on Newark’s April Surprise and the Rise of Charter School Parent Power
It starts here: New Jersey may be the Garden State, but don’t think you’ll find any country bumpkins in Newark, the state’s largest city with
QOD: Suburban Parents Need to Get Their Heads Out of the Sand
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Scandal in Montclair on Election Day: City Council Candidate Sean Spiller and NJEA Money
Today is election day in Montclair, N.J. for City Council seats. One of the candidates, Sean Spiller, already beset by scandal, is projected to win
Newark District Teacher Explains Why She Sends Her Daughter to a Charter School
Erica Fortenberry, a seventeen-year veteran traditional Newark school educator, teaches in a school that “works on behalf of its students” but, she notes, “that is
