And I’ve got a bridge I can sell you. Just as well: the Common Core was fine to begin with.  From today’s Star-Ledger: Nearly a […]

To our fellow New Yorkers: As the statewide English Language Arts and Math assessments for grades 3 through 8 wrap up, it’s important to remember […]

Last week Mayor Baraka issued a statement on Newark Public Schools’ $72 million budget gap, bemoaning the fact that the deficit will raise local property […]

Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on “the union war on charter school philanthropists”: Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps. At Success Academy schools […]

I’m at #ewa (Education Writers Association convention) this week in Boston. Blogging will be light. Feel like chatting? Give me a holler. The New York […]

In “Opt Out: An Examination of Issues,” a peer-reviewed paper that is part of ETS’s Research Report Series, Randy E. Bennett analyzes “early press accounts” […]