LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
April 9, 2013
Great piece by Carl Golden on the Christie Administration’s takeover of Camden City Public Schools. Golden acknowledges the grim environment for students and teachers – […]
April 8, 2013
A New York Times feature article last weed, “Curious Grade for Teachers: Nearly All Pass,” notes that in spite of the implementation of new value-added […]
April 7, 2013
Today’s Press of Atlantic City reports that Atlantic Human Resources, a non-profit which runs 20 Head Start publicly-funded preschools in South Jersey, is “relinquishing control […]
April 4, 2013
Jon Chait explains that reacting to the Atlanta test cheating scandal by blaming teacher incentives based on high-stakes tests is “perverse” and illogical: Incentivizing any […]
April 4, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in the context of NJ’s successful Abbott preschools. Two weeks […]
April 3, 2013
Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a Nobel Prize on his resume. […]