LATEST EDUCATION NEWS
June 1, 2011
The Associated Press has obtained an email memo written by Senate Minority Leader Tom Kean, Jr. to NJ’s Republican legislators. In the memo Sen. Kean […]
May 31, 2011
From today’s Education Week piece, “NJ Funding Decision Leaves Few Satisfied:” A sharply divided New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that the state must provide more […]
May 31, 2011
Over the long Memorial Day weekend, reports The Quick and the Ed, a tweet from twitter-fan Diane Ravitch went viral and misconstrued a 2007 paper […]
May 29, 2011
The system for funding and operating our public schools is hopelessly wasteful: a fractured, Byzantine system that allows good money to be wasted on redundant […]
May 29, 2011
This morning’s Courier-Post looks at the squabbling in the Statehouse over how to manage the additional $500 million in school aid to our Abbott districts […]
May 27, 2011
A 2010 dissertation by Rutgers researchers Jeffrey Backstrand, Andre Keeton and Alan Sadovnik looked at 9,725 Newark public school students during 2003-2008 and found that […]