Question of the Day
Laura Waters
January 18, 2011
What gets people so angry at the idea of incorporating a degree of professional accountability into teaching and administrating? My column Friday at NJ Spotlight
Cerf’s Up!
Laura Waters
December 20, 2010
Now that Christopher Cerf is, for all practical purposes, our next Commissioner of Education, what will this mean for school reform prospects in NJ? First,
Want Some More Tea With Your Sugar?
Laura Waters
December 8, 2010
Lots of coverage today as NJEA released its reform proposals: check out the Star-Ledger (which focuses on the Christie Administration’s reaction), the Philadelphia Inquirer (which
NJEA and Schundler Embrace Ed Reform?
Laura Waters
May 28, 2010
Word’s out: Ed. Comm. Schundler and NJEA’s Barbara Keshishian and Vince Giordano made a deal, and local bargaining units will sign off on NJ’s Race
NJ’s RTTT Prospects
Laura Waters
May 20, 2010
This afternoon the State Senate has 31 bills on its docket: one that upgrades penalties for drag racing, one that designates September 26th of each
Schundler Presents NJ’s Race To The Top Application
Laura Waters
May 7, 2010
Bret Schundler is taking Arne Duncan at his word. The U.S. Education Secretary told states recently that the Race to the Top competition would reward
Education Law Center’s Field of Dreams
Laura Waters
February 4, 2010
The Education Law Center (ELC), NJ’s preeminent defender of poor urban schoolchildren, has just issued another in its series of upbeat press releases, this one
Corzine and Christie on Ed Reform and RTTT
Laura Waters
January 26, 2010
The near-simultaneous release of NJ’s Race To The Top application and The Education Subcommittee Report conveniently provides an opportunity to compare Corzine’s and Christie’s vision
Can N.J. Get Real About Race To The Top?
Laura Waters
December 2, 2009
Thomas Carroll, President of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, has a piece in the New York Post on why New York State will
Measuring Merit in Marlboro
Laura Waters
September 17, 2009
The school board of a well-to-do district in Monmouth County, Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education, has found their inner Hulk and gone rogue