May 11, 2012
The National Assessment of Educational Progress released its scores on science exams given to 8th graders. Overall, reports the Wall St. Journal, “32% of students […]
May 3, 2012
That’s the topic for my post today at Newsworks WHYY. Teaser: These changes are serendipitous for those of the education reform persuasion, and dovetail smoothly […]
May 2, 2012
NJ School Boards Association has a cogent explanation of the new way NJ is calculating graduation rates: Previously, the graduation rate for a given year […]
April 27, 2012
Check out my new column at NJ Spotlight on the some similarities and differences between the radical public school overhaul in Philadelphia and the muted […]
April 16, 2012
Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced last year that the DOE would reorganize its local oversight from individual county offices to 7 Regional Achievement Centers (RAC’s), […]
March 15, 2012
Good news on NJ’s Interdistrict Public School Choice Program! According to a press release from the NJ DOE, participation next year is projected to increase […]
March 6, 2012
It was quite the scene at the Statehouse Annex yesterday as the Senate Education Committee heard public testimony on Sen. Teresa Ruiz’s tenure reform bill, […]
February 1, 2012
NJ’s School Report Cards, the state data base for student achievement based on standardized tests, is still under embargo. But here’s a few data points. […]
January 26, 2012
During President Obama’s State of the Union address on Tuesday, he dropped in a proposal that students should not be permitted to leave high school […]
January 26, 2012
Yesterday there were 38 New Jersey school boards that had voted to move their elections to November. Today, just a week after passage of the […]