DOE Accepting Calculator Donations

Laura Waters October 13, 2010

The final number of students who failed to graduate is still not determined, officials conceded. That’s from NJ Spotlight’s report today on a new template

Quote of the Day

Laura Waters September 1, 2010

Memo to Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks from Assistant Commissioner Willa Spicer (see”AHSA Result for State Board Final”) regarding the results of the Alternative High School

When a Rose Isn’t a Rose

Laura Waters July 26, 2010

New Jersey may have one of the nation’s top high school graduation rates, but when it comes to college just 40.9 percent of residents hold

Doing the Math in Camden

Laura Waters July 19, 2010

Today the Courier-Post examines the dipping graduation rates in Camden City’s five public high schools, where “at least 100 fewer seniors graduated…June 30 than last

Great Piece on the SRA, But…

Laura Waters July 15, 2010

James Ahearn takes on the Special Review Assessment in The Record, reviewing how students would take the SRA after failing the traditional high school proficiency

Parsing the AHSA Results

Laura Waters July 7, 2010

The Star-Ledger reports that 2,900 NJ high school seniors failed the Alternative High School Assessment, the replacement for the long-discredited Special Review Assessment, which almost

Shooting the Messenger

Laura Waters June 17, 2010

The Education Law Center has a press release out that assails the NJ DOE for “deny[ing] diplomas to unprecedented numbers of seniors on the basis

NJ’s “Telenovela”

Laura Waters June 10, 2010

Patrick Riccards over at Eduflack reviews the “telenovela” in Jersey over our Race To The Top soap opera: Ed. Comm. Schundler announces a hard-edged proposal,

Memo of the Day

Laura Waters May 19, 2010

Dated May 17th, from Willa Spicer, Deputy Commissioner, to District Superintendents and Charter School Leaders regarding the high failure rate on NJ’s Alternative High School