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Murphy’s Education Department Trumpets Equity as State Board Members View the 64th Floor

The New Jersey State Board of Education held its monthly public meeting this morning, large stretches of it consumed by…

2 years ago

New Report Tells Us To Do the Math in January 2022

Everyone from President Joe Biden to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to AFT President Randi Weingarten has championed the cause…

3 years ago

SCOOP: Murphy’s Ed Department Gives Up on Student Success After High School

Yesterday the State Board of Education convened to hear a presentation from the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education on the…

3 years ago

EXPLAINER: What Are Standardized Tests and Why Do We Need Them?

Few education topics get parents, teachers, and school leaders more riled up than discussions about using results from student tests…

3 years ago

LILLEY: NJ Is Tops Because of High Education Spending That Benefits NJEA, Not Students

FLORIDA GETS BETTER RESULTS AT LESS THAN HALF THE PRICE According to Governor Murphy, New Jersey public schools got the…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Camden’s Charters Are Dramatically More Cost-Effective Than District Schools

Do you cringe when an economist or policy wonk quantifies the value of a single child’s education? I do. How…

4 years ago

RICCARDS: Biden Administration Boldly Declares Importance of Measuring Academic Impact of Pandemic Year

Rest easy, Garden State. The Biden Administration and its U.S. Department of Education has now made the tough decision for…

4 years ago

Without Assessment Data, We Won't Get Our Kids Back on Track.

This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky who runs the Kentucky School Talk blog.…

4 years ago

Reading Proficiency for Boys Is Dropping, Including in New Jersey

This is a chart, courtesy of The 74, which shows how American students' proficiency in math has stagnated and proficiency…

4 years ago

Samantha Bee’s Opposition to School Choice is Wrong and Hypocritical.

Samantha Bee decided to go on the attack against school choice this week during her show, Full Frontal. Based on the…

4 years ago