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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 […]
August 25, 2009
New Jersey spends more on education than any other state in the nation, but we are not getting a good return on those dollars when […]
August 24, 2009
The State DOE trumpeted the news last week: 99.7% of New Jersey classroom teachers are Highly Qualified! Declared Education Commissioner Lucille Davy, this victory “represent(s) […]
August 23, 2009
The New Jersey Urban Youth Research Initiative is talking to Abbott high school students in Jersey City, Newark, and Paterson about the DOE’s new high […]
August 23, 2009
When you come up as a student, there are a lot of students in your class and maybe one or two are disruptive, but those […]