common core

QOD: as “biggest revamps of public education in a decade work their way into classrooms”

From the Wall Street Journal:"This is the huge fulcrum moment for many of the reforms," said Rick Hess, director of…

11 years ago

NJEA and The Eagle Forum? (New $1 Million Anti-Christie Ad Buy)

From today's  NJEA press release, announcing the beginning of a $1 million anti-Christie TV ad campaign that will start running…

11 years ago

GOP Revolt Against the Common Core Hailed by Glenn Beck, Michelle Malkin, Phyllis Schlafly, and Diane Ravitch

It’s not enough, apparently, for Republicans (and a few Democrats) to thwart reasonable gun control and immigration reform in order…

12 years ago

CFR Report, i.e., Ed Reform Makes Strange Bedfellows

Both the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal report today on a paper about to be issued by…

13 years ago

Weingarten and Kopp on Teacher Retention

Two separate items crossed my monitor this weekend: first, an editorial/ad that ran in Sunday’s New York Times Sunday Review…

13 years ago

When a Rose Isn’t a Rose

New Jersey may have one of the nation's top high school graduation rates, but when it comes to college just…

14 years ago

Rating NJ’s Content Standards

The Fordham Foundation has released its 2010 review of individual state standards for language arts and math as a stunningly…

14 years ago

About That Public Input…

A savvy reader points us to a document released yesterday from the NJ DOE, “Resolution to Adopt Common Core Standards…

14 years ago

The Charter School That Schundler Built

John Mooney at NJ Spotlight profiles the charter school that NJ Education Commissioenr Bret Schundler started, the Golden Door in…

15 years ago