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December 7, 2014
Good news on the graduation front: New Jersey’s graduation rate grew to 88.6 percent in 2014, slightly higher than the previous year, Note that this increase […]
December 5, 2014
Public education advocates in New Jersey, from Derrell Bradford to Paul Tractenberg (bet you never thought you’d see those two in the same sentence), have […]
December 5, 2014
There are two new reports out this week on charter schools. The first is from the National Association of Charter School Authorizers, which rates each […]
December 5, 2014
Here’s part of his statement: Over the past couple weeks, in classrooms across Newark and Camden, KIPP New Jersey teachers, families, social workers, and staff […]
December 4, 2014
It starts here: Local news agencies recently reported that Asbury Park High School (Monmouth County, New Jersey) has a 49 percent graduation rate. Only 2 […]
December 4, 2014
I just ran across this National Bureau of Economic Research paper called “How Does Peer Pressure Affect Educational Investments?” Authors Leonardo Bursztyn and Robert Jensen […]