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November 15, 2012
New York Times: The teachers’ union for this city’s chronically troubled schools approved a contract on Wednesday establishing performance bonuses, long opposed by national union […]
November 15, 2012
Here’s today’s WHYY Newsworks post on the future of No Child Left Behind and NJ’s shift to a more granular system for judging school success: […]
November 14, 2012
Today’s Trenton Times reports on a recent Trenton School Board meeting at which board members puzzled over seemingly conflicting test scores: high school students performed […]
November 13, 2012
Teach for America has launched an initiative called “You Served for American, Now Teach for America,” intended to offer war veterans an opportunity to “put […]
November 12, 2012
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger notes the Newark Teachers Union’s pending vote on a new contract that incorporates merit pay in the context of NJ’s […]
November 11, 2012
For the first time, school boards in New Jersey tried out November elections. From the Star-Ledger: Nearly 500 school districts across the state held elections […]