Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory Booker or Cami Anderson or
On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See today’s NJ Spotlight for details.)
I’ve written about the Badass Teachers Association (BAT) before, this rebel outpost of the national teachers unions, specifically its challenges to the leadership of the AFT
It starts here: On Tuesday morning the New Jersey School Choice and Education Reform Alliance (NJSCERA) held a statewide conference on the Common Core Standards
It starts here: Last week I looked at some of the myths surrounding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a set of learning goals in
John Mooney has the break-down on the new proportions of SGP’s (Student Growth Percentiles) that will be used for teacher evaluations. These lower values are
It starts here: Hand it to ol’ Chris Christie: on Monday he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by issuing an Executive Order that
Well, Bob Braun was half-right. Gov. Christie did issue an executive order last night that renders Senate Bill 2154 moot, at least for non-die-hard–anti-VAM-lobbyists. Teacher
Here’s today’s WHYY Newsworks post: Denver, the site of the NEA’s annual meeting last week, is a long way from Trenton but you’d never know
Yesterday NJ Spotlight published my column about the politics behind Senate bill 2154, which would establish an “Education Task Force” and delay NJ’s implementation of