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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May 4, 2012
Bob Braun at the Star-Ledger had a column yesterday that slammed the Christie Administration’s “dubious educational policy decisions made behind closed doors.” Those decisions include […]
May 6, 2011
Megan McCardle at The Atlantic wonders about the cries of woe from middle-class parents, teacher unions, and other foes of high-stakes testing. She concludes that […]
February 8, 2011
Bellweather Education Partners has a new report out today called “Location, Location, Location: How would a high-performing charter school network fare in different states?” Authors […]
September 27, 2010
Question: Friday afternoon on Oprah during the announcement that Mark Zuckerberg was funding a $100 million grant to Newark’s public schools, why did U.S. Education […]
September 5, 2010
Former New Jersey governors Brendan T. Byrne and Tom Kean in the Star-Ledger on the prospects of legislative hearings and other RTTT matters: BYRNE: Children […]
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 […]
January 25, 2010
Here’s a Spark’s Notes version of Gov. Christie’s Education Subcommittee Report, which constitutes a list of recommendations to improve public education in N.J. Some are […]
January 21, 2010
The New Jersey Organizing Collaborative, an arm of the Education Law Center, the Abbot Leadership Institute, and the Paterson Education Fund, is charging that our […]
June 22, 2009
At Democrats for Education Reform, Executive Director Joe Williams and Director of Federal Policy Charles Barone have released a series of short papers under the […]
June 19, 2009
This year, in Paterson, more than 40 percent of the seniors took the special test [given to students who can’t pass the standard test]. In […]
June 18, 2009
While recent New Jersey history is not part of the State Board of Education’s just-released high school graduation requirements, let’s stroll back down memory lane […]