NJEA

NJEA Goes Off the Rails: PARCC, Pensions, and Camden School Choice

NJEA is on a roll. Just over the couple of months New Jersey’s primary teacher union leaders have mounted a…

10 years ago

NJEA Prez to Hespe: Stop Telling Parents the Truth!

This just out from NJEA:Steinhauer demands that Hespe retract opt-out threatPublished on Thursday, April 23, 2015 NJEA President Wendell Steinhauer today…

10 years ago

N.J. Ed. Comm. Hespe: Districts with High Opt-Outs will Be Placed on Corrective Action Plans and Risk State and Federal Funding

Echoing U.S. Sec’y of Education Arne Duncan’s announcement this week at the Education Writers Association conference, N.J. Ed. Commissioner David…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: How Annual Standardized Testing Reveals Achievement Gaps

NJEA‏@NJEBasking Ridge former BOE member calls for grade span testing (rather than every grade) and sampling like @NAEP_NCES. #NoPARCCingThis tweet represents…

10 years ago

Upper-Class Suburbia and Its Discontents with PARCC

Laura McKenna, author of the recent Atlantic article “What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test? “ (April 9th), describes…

10 years ago

“Movements are moral.” Opting-out Isn’t.

A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in…

10 years ago

Crunching the PARCC Opt-Out Data

What looks like a victory to some parents may soon backfire in their faces. The anti-PARCC hysteria that's torn through…

10 years ago

New Jersey’s Opt-Out Numbers Are In

New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight.  (Here's additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and the Heritage Foundation: Perfect Together

It starts here:Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child…

10 years ago

Irony of the Day: Education Law Center FIghts Camden Parents’ Rights to Educational Equity

To no one’s surprise, Education Law Center is threatening legal action against the expansion of  renaissance schools in Camden, a…

10 years ago