March 23, 2010
The educational bureaucracy cannot bring itself to say the F-word — ‘failing.’So let me say it. These schools are failing the students of our state. […]
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March 22, 2010
Amidst the ruckus surrounding Gov. Christie’s $819 million cut in state aid to public schools we’re detecting a spike of attention to charter schools, often […]
February 24, 2010
We’re sensing an energetic focus in the media on problems endemic to teacher tenure. From today’s New York Times: [I]n the two years since the […]
February 18, 2010
Scholastic’s Administrator Magazine includes four views on whether states should raise charter school caps. One administrator queried is Bernard Pierorazio, superintendent of Yonkers Public Schools […]
February 18, 2010
Today’s New York Times features a report just out from the Fordham Institute that surveys public schools that serve no poor students, and New Jersey […]
February 4, 2010
The Education Law Center (ELC), NJ’s preeminent defender of poor urban schoolchildren, has just issued another in its series of upbeat press releases, this one […]
February 1, 2010
In yesterday’s Trenton Times Drs. James Deneen and Carmen Catanese propose a three-part fix for Trenton Central High School, one of NJ’s most dysfunctional educational […]
January 28, 2010
dated yesterday, which itemizes its objections to new recommendations from Gov. Christie’s transition subcomittees regarding pension and educational reforms. (Sorry: no link available.) Predictably, the […]
January 28, 2010
as long as you dwell in the shining city on a hill, otherwise known as Princeton. West Windsor-Plainsboro works too. The Trenton Times reports today […]
January 26, 2010
The near-simultaneous release of NJ’s Race To The Top application and The Education Subcommittee Report conveniently provides an opportunity to compare Corzine’s and Christie’s vision […]
January 22, 2010
Interesting poll out from Quinnipiac University, and then either a lightening-fast response or a coincidentally-apropos column from the execs at NJEA. First, the survey, which […]
January 11, 2010
Critics have often charged that charter schools look better academically because they skim off the most talented students from neighboring traditional schools. The Stanford study […]