My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in the context of NJ’s successful Abbott preschools. Two weeks
Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a Nobel Prize on his resume.
Here’s a fiery editorial from today’s Wall Street Journal, charging that President Obama’s new universal preschool initiative is, er, misguided because of “the phenomenon known
My column today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at President Obama’s push for preschool and New Jersey’s programs. We do a great job. Our costs are
Last night, President Obama proposed universal preschool for four-year olds. Here’s the section of transcript from last night’s State of the Union: Tonight, I propose
I’d like to revisit a post from last week. In that post, “OSA [Opportunity Scholarship Act]: The False Dichotomy of Public and Private Schools,” I
NJ’s voucher bill, the Opportunity Scholarship Act, is the big education news story today. Assembly Bill 2810 will be the subject of a hearing today
An article in yesterday’s Trenton Times discusses the “huge achievement gap” in newly-released standardized test scores between black, Hispanic, and low-income kids, and white and
Patrick Riccards over at Eduflack reviews the “telenovela” in Jersey over our Race To The Top soap opera: Ed. Comm. Schundler announces a hard-edged proposal,
We’re justifiably proud of our extensive preschool programs in New Jersey. Out-going Education Commissioner Lucille Davy has labeled preschool availability to poor children the “game-changer,”