achievement gap

NJEA’s Giordano Gets the NJ GOP Treatment

Vince Giordano, NJEA’s Executive Director, is still getting slammed for a thoughtless comment he made on the radio in response…

13 years ago

Comm. Cerf Comes Out Swinging

What to make of the timing of yesterday’s NJEA/Christie fisticuffs and today’s release of a memo from Ed. Comm. Cerf…

13 years ago

Quote of the Day

Today's NJ Spotlight on NJ's achievement gap between "low income kids and everyone else": In elementary school language arts, for…

13 years ago

In School Choice, Choosing Between the System and the Student

Last week Gordon MacInnes wrote an editorial for NJ Spotlight that vaunts NJ’s public school system as the best in…

13 years ago

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…

14 years ago

Snaps to ELC

While the Schott Foundation may need an editor (see post below), the Education Law Center made good use of the…

14 years ago

NJ Fisticuffs

Senator Dick Codey narrowly averted a boxing match between Senator Mike Doherty and Senator Ray Lesniak when he thrust himself…

14 years ago

Paging All Fact-Checkers

Here’s Tom Moran on yesterday’s filing by the Education Law Center to overturn Christie’s public school education cuts because they…

14 years ago

6,891 Abbott Children Deemed Ineligible for Preschool

The Education Law Center, the primary advocates for students in our 31 poor urban Abbott districts, announced yesterday that the…

15 years ago

85% or 49% Proficiency? Depends Upon Whom You Ask

This today from the Core Knowledge Blog in reference the discrepancy between New York State testing in math, which showed…

15 years ago