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

Fact-Checking Linda Darling-Hammond

Laura Waters April 30, 2010

Bob Braun at the Star-Ledger writes of renowned education scholar Linda Darling-Hammond’s lecture in New Brunswick this week in which she lauds New Jersey’s success

Christie’s “Seismic Shift”

Laura Waters April 22, 2010

NJEA and Education Law Center, cozy as two peas in a pod, have twin press releases out, both regarding this report out from the Office

A Race To The Top Proposal

Laura Waters April 20, 2010

We were awfully hard on the Education Law Center yesterday (see below), so here’s some praise: its April 15th press release does a great job

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

ELC and RTTT

Laura Waters April 15, 2010

David Sciarra, Executive Director of the Education Law Center, has an editorial at New Jersey Newsroom in which he attacks the “voucher bill,” or The

Judge Wallace and School Funding

Laura Waters April 12, 2010

Here in Jersey all jural eyes are on the looming question of whether Gov. Christie will grant tenure to Justice John E. Wallace Jr., whose

ELC Takes on TFA?

Laura Waters April 7, 2010

Education Law Center has submitted comments to the U.S. House Committee on Education and Labor regarding reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Unsurprisingly,

SFRA as Gold Doubloon

Laura Waters April 1, 2010

Excuse the self-indulgent literary reference, but we just can’t help ourselves. The much-heralded/hated School Funding Reform Act, Gov. Corzine’s formula intended to more fairly equalize