LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
December 15, 2011
This past Spring two of Trenton’s charter schools were closed down for either sketchy finances or failure to make adequate academic progress. Four new charters […]
December 14, 2011
From New Jersey School Boards Association: An informal survey of School Board Notes readers indicates that a majority support school boards being authorized to move […]
December 13, 2011
Dennis Van Roekel, President of the National Education Association, may have gotten more than he bargained for when he commissioned a report from “21 accomplished […]
December 13, 2011
From In The Lobby: There’s been plenty of talk about the Assembly’s so-called “Gang of Thirteen”, the Democrat progressives who were said to be considering […]
December 13, 2011
From today’s New York Times: In his country [Finland], Dr. Sahlberg said later in an interview, teachers typically spend about four hours a day in […]
December 12, 2011
Gordon MacInnes, in today’s NJ Spotlight, advises that tying teaching evaluations to student growth is premature. The current teacher evaluation-tenure system,” he concedes, “is close […]