November 15, 2012
Here’s today’s WHYY Newsworks post on the future of No Child Left Behind and NJ’s shift to a more granular system for judging school success: […]
September 27, 2012
My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey’s high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of sending children with disabilities to […]
September 6, 2012
Yesterday the Christie Administration released the long-awaited the Education Transformation Task Force report. As NJ Spotlight reports, the 239-page report “was a gargantuan effort, with […]
August 2, 2012
According to Andrew Rotherham at Eduwonk, Mr. Smarick is joining Bellwether Education Partners, a nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the achievement of low-income students: We’re also […]
July 17, 2012
Education Law Center has filed an OPRA request for “detailed documentation about the Lakewood school district’s plan to reconfigure school grade assignments and for academic […]
July 5, 2012
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature’s budget debate: NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers, a centerpiece of the […]
June 1, 2012
The NJ DOE released the 2010-2011 School Report Cards yesterday, with a few new bells and whistles. One new feature is accurate graduation rates, previously […]
May 31, 2012
Well, it’s not quite a trip to the Promised Land but the New Jersey Department of Education did announce that today it will release the […]
May 24, 2012
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than the […]
May 23, 2012
Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov. Christie and Ed. Comm. Cerf, […]