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Are Anti-Charter Folk Engaging in “Statistical Gibberish?”

Check out today’s editorial in NJ Spotlight by Rick Pressler, interim head of New Jersey Charter School Association. Here he…

10 years ago

The Impact of Peer Pressure On Student Achievement

I just ran across this National Bureau of Economic Research paper  called “How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?”  Authors…

10 years ago

Can Education Law Center Bring Home the Bacon?

Education Law Center has joined the plaintiffs in the “Bacon” cases, a lawsuit that charges that sixteen small rural districts…

10 years ago

New Jersey has Two Few School Administrators, says sleepy State Auditor

State Auditor Stephen Eells has issued a report that accuses Gov. Christie of failing to appoint the necessary Executive County…

10 years ago

Erratum

The Philadelphia Inquirer has this to say about "the insidious proliferation of charter schools" in New Jersey and Pennsylvania:Both New…

10 years ago

Legislature Tries to Address Perceived Decline of Local Control

Here's today's WHYY Newsworks column:Summer's lethargy is nearly upon us, but the New Jersey Legislature is steaming ahead, at least…

10 years ago

QOD: “The Myth of Public Schools”

Matthew Yglesias  considers East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana, a wealthy neighborhood that wants  to secede from the local school…

11 years ago

Sen. Sweeney: Let’s Cut that 2% School Tax Increase Cap Down to 0%

No, that was no slip of the tongue the other day: Sen. President Sweeney is serious about a zero tax…

11 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: A County-Wide Approach to Easing NJ’s De Facto School Segregation

Here's how it starts (minus some stats in the first paragraph): It’s an old problem: New Jersey has one of…

11 years ago

Has Abbott Funding “Helped Close the Gap in Test Scores”?

Today’s Business Section of the New York Times has an article by Eduardo Porter about the inequitable distribution of public…

11 years ago