LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
May 30, 2012
Today’s New York Times op-ed page features a must-read by James E. Ryan, author of “Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, […]
May 29, 2012
Today’s Star-Ledger describes a program in Newark, the Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), that offers highly-motivated students an intensive remediation program in order […]
May 27, 2012
An audit of the NJ DOE’s oversight of charter schools finds that there is, according to NJ Spotlight, “a host of problems,” including a lack […]
May 24, 2012
The big education story today is Mitt Romney’s “education platform,” which was unveiled, curiously, during a speech to the Latino Coalition (where he didn’t mention […]
May 24, 2012
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than the […]
May 23, 2012
Chester Finn comments on “a fascinating tidbit” from Arne Duncan’s new Race To The Top heat, which is directed at individual school districts rather than […]