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NJ Teacher: NJEA's State Leadership Makes Me Feel Disrespected and Ignored so I'm Opting Out.

This is a guest post by Susan Fischer. Ms. Fischer has been a public school teacher in New Jersey for…

6 years ago

Karp the PARCC-Slayer

Stan Karp, Director of of Secondary Reform for New Jersey’s Education Law Center, had an op-ed in NJ Spotlight on Friday…

6 years ago

An Addendum to the Four Education Promises Gov. Murphy Can’t Keep

I have a piece in The 74 called "Four Education Promises New Jersey's New Governor Can't -- or Shouldn't --…

7 years ago

Dissecting the Opt-Out Bubble: A Thorough Analysis

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education has just released a working paper called “The Bubble Bursts: The 2015 Opt-Out…

8 years ago

N.J. Correlations Between Anti-Vaxxers and Anti-Testers

The Star-Ledger reports that a record  9,500 students in New Jersey declined vaccinations in the 2015-16 school year, according to…

8 years ago

NYS Releases Student Test Scores: What Results Tell Us About Common Core, Charters, and Opt-Out

Friday afternoon New York State released this year’s student standardized assessment results. They shed light on three controversial issues that…

8 years ago

Brooklyn Schools, Heeding Opt-Out Advocates Advice, Lose Honor and Money

Here's the "BOTTOM LINE" from the-anti-accountability group New York State Allies for Public Education:A school district does NOT lose funding…

8 years ago

QOD (and a few notes): PARCC Points Out the “Gross Inequality of Our State’s Public Education System”

Irwin Stoolmacher, a guest columnist today at the Star-Ledger and a resident of West Windsor-Plainsboro, one of N.J.’s wealthy suburban…

8 years ago

Shame on Long Island’s “Wall of Shame” : Can We Just Stop with the Bullying?

Michael Goot in the upstate New York Post Star reports on a website called the Wall of Shame that currently highlights…

8 years ago

QOD: Some Choice Words for Diane Ravitch and Her Opt-Out Minions

Charles Cole at the Huffington Post:I remember graduating being in the top 10 percentile throughout high school. I remember having…

9 years ago