June 5, 2023

NJ Business Association Blasts Bill That Would Eliminate High School Graduation Test and Lower Standards

NJBIA is opposing legislation before an Assembly committee today that would eliminate the high school graduation proficiency test in New Jersey, saying such a move […]
June 5, 2023

GASWIRTH: We Won’t Solve the Teacher Shortage With Tepid Proposals. Here’s What We Should Do Instead.

Dr. Marc Gaswirth, a retired public school administrator, has written extensively for nearly 50 years about public sector bargaining  and school human resources.   In January 2023, […]
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October 22, 2020

Oops, Balanced Literacy Doesn’t Work Like We’ve Said It Did for Half a Century. Our Bad.

“Pouring over the work of contemporary reading researchers has led us to believe that aspects of balanced literacy need some ‘rebalancing.’” Those words, written by […]
October 20, 2020

The COVID Pandemic Has Not Changed Some Things: More Shoddy Research From Jersey Jazzman and NJ Policy Perspective

Mark Weber, Ph.D. (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman), has published an op-ed in NJSpotlight (based on a report he did for New Jersey Policy Perspective [NJPP]) that purports to […]