Last week Chris Stewart, native of New Orleans and graduate of the its public school system (“My NOLA education sucked.…
Today the American Federation for Children and The 74 held an education summit in New Hampshire for GOP candidates. I…
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…
The U.S. Congress is seemingly close to reauthorizing ESEA, now called the “Every Child Achieves Act.” But the current proposal…
After I read the Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage on Friday, I couldn’t stop thinking about the pending reauthorization…
Last August New Jersey Monthly ran competing editorials by Bob Braun, former Star-Ledger editor and current ed reform-basher, and Jonathan…
As discussions heat up in the U.S. Senate over a reauthorized ESEA (and urgency surges as the clock ticks away),…
Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired…
Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…
Ann Hyslop of Bellwether is just the smartest person in the room on the dangers of the growing resistance towards…