LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
August 31, 2009
Comments on Race To The Top were due on Friday, and the National Education Association submitted theirs last week. (Link to the complete document through […]
August 30, 2009
Hard Times:The Courier-Post reports on south Jersey districts that are laying off teachers, raising class size, and cutting out enrichment and sports programs due to […]
August 29, 2009
Of course, those systems [that link student achievement to teacher performance] need to be sensible and fair. But the country will never get where it […]
August 28, 2009
In an op-ed in the New York Times today, Tom Loveless and Michael Petrelli argue that our brightest students are suffering from “benign neglect” due […]
August 27, 2009
Steven Brill’s must-read in The New Yorker: 99% of all NYC teachers in 2001 received a “satisfactory” performance rating. Is there any other industry where […]
August 26, 2009
SAT scores are in the news today. The Star-Ledger’s lede is that New Jersey students’ average SAT scores “inched upward one point this year,” though […]