LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
March 14, 2013
In my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks I look at New Jersey’s new teacher/principal evaluation and the attendant regulations (released last week). What does this […]
March 13, 2013
Former Governor Thomas Kean has a new gig: co-chairing a new education reform organization in New Jersey called JerseyCAN. Today’s NJ Spotlight has an interview. […]
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,” […]