Quote of the Day
Laura Waters
January 29, 2010
Joe (not Joel) Klein in Time Magazine berates the NY State Legislature for cowering before the powers at the UFT and turning down $700 million
Corzine and Christie on Ed Reform and RTTT
Laura Waters
January 26, 2010
The near-simultaneous release of NJ’s Race To The Top application and The Education Subcommittee Report conveniently provides an opportunity to compare Corzine’s and Christie’s vision
The Ethics of Ed Reform In N.J.
Laura Waters
January 20, 2010
With all the adrenaline hosed on Race To The Top (including our own), a pattern in N.J. is emerging amidst the spray: the 21 school
Obama Will Announce Long-Term RTTT Funding
Laura Waters
January 19, 2010
Education Week is reporting that President Obama intends to seeks an additional $1.35 billion in next year’s budget to extend the Race To The Top
Who’s Your Daddy?
Laura Waters
January 18, 2010
Andy Smarick over at Fordham’s Flypaper blog, has been having fun with what he calls the “Universal State Application Theorem,” which holds that there is
NJEA Gets Slammed on Recalcitrance re: RTTT
Laura Waters
January 15, 2010
Question of the day: does it matter? Today’s the deadline for local school boards to submit applications to the NJ DOE in order to garner
Quote of the Day
Laura Waters
January 13, 2010
While NJEA doesn’t agree with all of the proposed “reforms” under RTTT, that doesn’t make NJEA anti-reform. NJEA will not stand by while our critics
Is Union Support and Meaningful Change Mutually Exclusive?
Laura Waters
January 13, 2010
Or, more specifically, is NJEA support for N.J.’s Race to the Top application only possible with a weak proposal? We’ve raised this conundrum before, and
For An Out-of-the-Box View on RTTT
Laura Waters
January 12, 2010
Read Educflack’s Patrick Riccards, who has a new post up on why New Jersey should either 1) hold off on applying to Race To the