Accountability

Some (Unsolicited) Advice to NEA and AFT Leaders

Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked.…

9 years ago

Two Thoughts on Today’s Education Summit

Today the American Federation for Children and The 74 held an education summit in New Hampshire for GOP candidates. I…

9 years ago

Why We Need a Suburban Middle-Class Version of Education Reform

Here's my new NJ Spotlight piece:Are we being over-optimistic when it comes to how well NJ’s middle-class students are being…

9 years ago

NEA Approves New Anti-Accountability Items at the Expense of Disadvantaged Kids

The U.S. Congress is seemingly close to reauthorizing ESEA, now called the “Every Child Achieves Act.” But the current proposal…

9 years ago

Note to U.S. Congress on ESEA Rewrite: Take a Tip From the Supreme Court’s Same-Sex Marriage Ruling

After I read the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage on Friday, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pending reauthorization…

9 years ago

Throw-Back Thursday: Bob Braun and Jonathan Alter Debate Education Reform

Last August New Jersey Monthly ran competing editorials by Bob Braun, former Star-Ledger editor and current ed reform-basher, and Jonathan…

9 years ago

Camden’s “Remarkable Scholars” Feted by District/Why We Need a New ESEA With Teeth

As discussions heat up in the U.S. Senate over a reauthorized ESEA (and urgency surges as the clock ticks away),…

9 years ago

N.J. Senate PARCC and Superintendent Salary Cap Update

Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired…

10 years ago

Parents Across America and Fairtest Fight ESEA/NCLB Commitment to Annual Standardized Tests

Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…

10 years ago

The Anti-Testing Movement and Global-Warming Deniers

Ann Hyslop of Bellwether is just the smartest person in the room on the dangers of the growing resistance towards…

10 years ago