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Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students…

9 years ago

Are Newark’s North Star Teachers Inferior to Teachers in Rich Suburban Districts? Mark Weber says “Yes.”

Jersey Jazzman is on a tear: he’s just published his fifth installment of an ongoing critique of Stephen Chiger’s piece…

9 years ago

N.J. Suburban Schools are “Not as Good as You Think”

On Monday I spoke at a launch event for Pacific Research Institute's release of a report called "“Not As Good…

9 years ago

Asbury Park Press Editorial Board Shoots the Messenger and Denies the Message

The Asbury Park Press Editorial Board is in denial. While they gleefully -- and expertly -- dissect the dysfunction in…

9 years ago

QOD: “Opting Out Hits the Hardest on Families That Can Absorb it the Least” and is the “Wrong Choice for Our Kids”

Charles F. Coleman Jr., a civil rights attorney and former Brooklyn, NY prosecutor, explains why opting out of standardized state…

9 years ago

New Report on Middle-Class N.J. Public Schools: “Not as Good as You Think”

The Pacific Research Institute has a new report out called “Not as Good as You Think: Why Middle Class Parents…

9 years ago

Anti-Testing Movement Privileges Rich Students over Poor Students

It’s like New Jersey is two separate countries, at least as I read my local papers yesterday. In the Trenton…

9 years ago