May 8, 2012
John Mooney has an important piece today in NJ Spotlight on the decision by Ed. Comm. Cerf and the DOE to wean NJ public high […]
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October 13, 2010
The final number of students who failed to graduate is still not determined, officials conceded. That’s from NJ Spotlight’s report today on a new template […]
September 1, 2010
Memo to Acting Commissioner Rochelle Hendricks from Assistant Commissioner Willa Spicer (see”AHSA Result for State Board Final”) regarding the results of the Alternative High School […]
July 26, 2010
New Jersey may have one of the nation’s top high school graduation rates, but when it comes to college just 40.9 percent of residents hold […]
July 19, 2010
Today the Courier-Post examines the dipping graduation rates in Camden City’s five public high schools, where “at least 100 fewer seniors graduated…June 30 than last […]
July 15, 2010
James Ahearn takes on the Special Review Assessment in The Record, reviewing how students would take the SRA after failing the traditional high school proficiency […]
July 7, 2010
The Star-Ledger reports that 2,900 NJ high school seniors failed the Alternative High School Assessment, the replacement for the long-discredited Special Review Assessment, which almost […]
June 17, 2010
The Education Law Center has a press release out that assails the NJ DOE for “deny[ing] diplomas to unprecedented numbers of seniors on the basis […]
June 10, 2010
Patrick Riccards over at Eduflack reviews the “telenovela” in Jersey over our Race To The Top soap opera: Ed. Comm. Schundler announces a hard-edged proposal, […]
May 19, 2010
Dated May 17th, from Willa Spicer, Deputy Commissioner, to District Superintendents and Charter School Leaders regarding the high failure rate on NJ’s Alternative High School […]
May 3, 2010
Are the massive failure rates of students who took this year’s Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) a failure of teaching or testing? That’s the heart […]
April 28, 2010
Yesterday (see below) we described the sorrow engendered by NJ’s abject failure to adequately educate poor urban children, and the results of our newly-accountable Alternative […]