LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
August 12, 2011
NJ Spotlight reports on Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s transition, particularly in regards to using previously excessed teachers from Newark’s own rubber room. Sometimes teachers are […]
August 10, 2011
Slightly off-topic: check out Ryan Lizza’s New Yorker profile of GOP presidential candidate Michelle Bachman as he probes her fundamentalist Christian belief system. While raising […]
August 10, 2011
Considering this is my first board meeting, it might be my last. That’s Hamilton’s spanking-new interim superintendent, Dr. James Sheerin, reacting in disbelief when school […]
August 10, 2011
Get out your ballots: the Thomas Fordham Foundation is hosting the first annual Education Reform Idol contest. The goal is to anoint the reformiest education […]
August 9, 2011
Results released yesterday of test scores in the New York State Assessment Program showed that the most relentlessly attacked charter schools—Eva Moskowitz’s Harlem Success academies—have […]
August 9, 2011
Odds are high that New Jersey will apply for a waiver on No Child Left Behind sanctions, reports NJ Spotlight and The Record. The federal […]