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May 14, 2012
shared today by Dr. Diane Ravitch and New Jersey Newsroom. Dr. Ravitch gave a speech last Thursday in New Brunswick sponsored by Education Law Center […]
May 14, 2012
Here’s a striking synchronicity: on May 10th (last Thursday) in a Wall St. Journal article about the recent release of U.S. students’ “deeply disappointing” science […]
May 13, 2012
NJ’s third-graders took their standardized tests this week, and one language arts question asked children to reveal a secret that was hard to keep. DOE […]
May 11, 2012
From the Star-Ledger Editorial Board regarding the Perth Amboy School Board’s firing of Superintendent Janine Caffrey: The school board was way out of line in […]
May 11, 2012
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its scores on science exams given to 8th graders. Overall, reports the Wall St. Journal, “32% of students […]
May 10, 2012
My column today at Newsworks WHYY asks why Gov. Christie, after a relatively peaceful interlude with NJEA top brass, has gone pugilistic again: To those […]