NCLB

African-American High Schoolers in N.J. Drop Further Behind

SAT scores are in the news today. The Star-Ledger’s lede is that New Jersey students’ average SAT scores “inched upward…

15 years ago

Does Teacher Proficiency Matter?

The State DOE trumpeted the news last week: 99.7% of New Jersey classroom teachers are Highly Qualified! Declared Education Commissioner…

15 years ago

Musical Chairs in Willingboro

What happens when a school gets flagged enough times by the NCLB watchdogs to merit the dreaded sanction “Implement Restructuring…

16 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Prison Prep?:Martin Perez, of the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ, testifies on the connection between failing schools in cities like…

16 years ago

Who’s Partially Proficient?

The N.J. School Report Card data came out today and it's a bit sobering. We’re sure there'll be some punchy…

16 years ago

Mountain-Climbing in Jersey

In a memo released Monday, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy announced that the U.S. Department of Education had approved some New…

16 years ago

Lake Wobegone Begone

Brace yourselves. The new scores for the state assessments are coming out and they’re not pretty. Two distinct elements contribute…

16 years ago

Willingboro and Moorestown: Reaching Higher

Let’s take a closer look at what consolidation of school districts would mean for students and families. Here’s a couple…

16 years ago

Zero-Sum Game

There’s daily chatter about the tussle in New Jersey between local school districts and the State Department of Education. Our…

16 years ago

Grim(m) Fairy Tale

The national journal Science just published a report on how the No Child Left Behind academic benchmarks will lead to…

16 years ago