Asking The Right Question
Laura Waters
May 3, 2010
Are the massive failure rates of students who took this year’s Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) a failure of teaching or testing? That’s the heart
AHSA Follow-Up
Laura Waters
April 28, 2010
Yesterday (see below) we described the sorrow engendered by NJ’s abject failure to adequately educate poor urban children, and the results of our newly-accountable Alternative
How We Fail the Kids in Camden
Laura Waters
April 27, 2010
My heart is crushed right now just because he worked hard to reach this point,” [Beyonka] Walden-Utley said about her youngest son. “Please understand, I
NJ’s Diploma Scam, Part II
Laura Waters
April 19, 2010
To recap: the Education Law Center is irate because this past January the vast majority of the 10,000 high school seniors who couldn’t pass the
NJ’s Diploma Scam: Part I
Laura Waters
April 19, 2010
Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the results of last January’s Alternate