October 8, 2008

Break out the Incense

Here’s a must-read piece in today’s Education Week on the current court battle about New Jersey’s school funding formula. Since 1981 when Abbott v Burke […]
October 3, 2008

Target Practice

For a fine example of how New Jersey clobbers a flea with an uzi, take a look at this story in today’s Star-Ledger regarding the […]
October 2, 2008

Corey Booker Takes on NJEA

The October issue of School Reform News has just reprinted an article originally printed in the Rocky Mountain News during the Democratic Convention in Denver. […]
October 1, 2008

Plop Plop Fizz Fizz

Question: How are local school boards reacting to the reams of regulations recently issued by the DOE?Answer: Pass the alka-seltzer. The first part of these […]
September 26, 2008

Grim(m) Fairy Tale

The national journal Science just published a report on how the No Child Left Behind academic benchmarks will lead to a “widespread failure” among California’s […]
September 18, 2008

Corzine Takes on Locals

Here’s the Star-Ledger’s take on Corzine’s proposal yesterday to raise high school graduation requirements in New Jersey. The bottom line is that kids would take […]
September 17, 2008

Casting Call for Moses

Lucille Davy, Commissioner of Education, will depict her “vision of the future” today for New Jersey’s high schools, in spite of strident opposition from the […]
September 15, 2008

Apples and Oranges

Yesterday’s Star-Ledger has a piece about Newark’s high school graduation rate, and New Jersey’s lack of any standard formula for calculating this data. According to […]
September 12, 2008

NJ School Boards Musketeers

Marie Bilik, Executive Director of New Jersey School Boards Association, has been busy defending the honor of NJ’s 4800 school board members as our public […]