LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
March 13, 2013
Michael Guerriero in The New Yorker derides the uses of standardized tests to evaluate teachers, particularly the internal assessments used by schools to track student […]
March 11, 2013
Today’s NJ Spotlight profiles the NJ DOE’s annual list of the state’s highest-performing “Reward” schools. According to our waiver for No Child Left Behind, every […]
March 10, 2013
The Star-Ledger reports that “[t]he New Jersey Education Association’s spending on lobbying dropped 96 percent, from $11.3 million to $409,000 — accounting for more than […]
March 8, 2013
Education Law Center has issued a press release condemning Gov.Christie’s proposed state school aid budget as “paltry,” “not keeping pace with inflation,” “legally improper,” “arbitrary,” […]
March 8, 2013
Politics K12 reports on Diane Ravitch’s new anti-reform organization, The Network for Public Education: Education historian Diane Ravitch, a fierce critic of current education reform […]
March 7, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the reaction of various interest groups — school boards, teachers’ union, principals and supervisors, superintendents — to […]