Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with…
Nicholas Simmons, currently a vice principal at New York City’s Success Academy, tells his “tale of two schools, one building”…
Last Wednesday the U.S. House of Representatives passed an emasculated rewrite of NCLB called the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA).…
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…
John M. Bridgeland, a Cincinnati native and former White House staffer, explains why a newly-authorized ESEA must include a federal…
In response to concerns about summer retention – educationally-disadvantaged children lose up to three months of reading and math proficiency…
Read the whole thing, but here's the opening:Opposition to state testing comes from the far left and the far right.…
Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee, has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…
Today Walter Bowne, an A.P. English teacher somewhere in South Jersey, argues in NJ Spotlight that PARCC test results should…