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March 16, 2011
The head of PISA, the international achievement test, says that the U.S. needs to “raise the status of the teaching profession by recruiting more qualified […]
March 16, 2011
The Asbury Park Public Schools’ struggle to improve student performance continues unabated. Today the Asbury Park Press reports that the Asbury Park School Board rejected […]
March 15, 2011
If there is one dominant trend during the past decade in terms of school elections, it is the growing clout of the New Jersey Education […]
March 15, 2011
Trenton Community Charter School is in big trouble, according to the Trenton Times. The 13-year-old K-8 school with 173 students has failed to make Adequate […]
March 14, 2011
[Pennsylvania Democratic State Senator Anthony] Williams, who is black, has taken some heat for his pro-voucher stance from local civil rights groups. “The NAACP nationally […]
March 14, 2011
Dr. Bruce Baker, in his column in yesterday’s Record, makes the case that the use of any sort of value-added models (VAM’s) to assess teacher […]