In Essex County’s Cedar Grove Schools District, a petition is circulating asking for a recall vote of school board member Christine Dye. It currently has
The following letter expresses “alarm” at the dumbing-down of math standards, with particular reference to a new initiative in California that offers students a pathway
Two years ago, under the leadership of Phil Murphy’s Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet, the State Board of Education voted 12-1 to kill the standardized assessments
Yesterday the State Board of Education convened to hear a presentation from the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education on the new graduation test called the
Remote learning during the pandemic has indeed taken its toll on NJ students. The New Jersey Globe reported that based on interim tests 37% of NJ students
.Yesterday the New Jersey State Department of Education issued instructions on how it will collect local assessment data. [An earlier version of this post incorrectly
Rest easy, Garden State. The Biden Administration and its U.S. Department of Education has now made the tough decision for us. The decision no one
This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The first one is here and
Yesterday the New Jersey State Board of Education approved new Student Learning Standards, a practice that occurs every five years. Typically these exercises are pro