March 24, 2025
Dr. Marc Gaswirth is a retired public school administrator who has written extensively for more than 40 years about public sector bargaining and school human […]
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January 26, 2024
A new RAND report finds that 30% of K-12 teachers think that mandated state learning standards are too difficult for their students. Teachers working in […]
May 10, 2023
Chris Cerf is the former superintendent of Newark Public Schools and the former New Jersey commissioner of education. He serves on the board of ExcelinEd, a […]
April 11, 2023
A recent poll out from the Wall Street Journal and NORC-University of Chicago gives a grim view of how Americans view their financial, cultural, and […]
July 18, 2022
Late last week Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa) released the AP scores for their 8th grade class, showing that 81% of test-takers passed the […]
July 11, 2022
Hindsight is golden but here’s what we know: School closures and remote instruction during the 2020-2021 school year were academic and emotional disasters for most […]
June 8, 2022
Ten years ago Robert Goodman, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL), wrote a paper exploring a new way […]
June 1, 2022
U.S. News and World Report just issued a state-by-state performance comparison of American public high schools. The ranking is based on which states have the […]
February 3, 2022
With apologies to The Clash, yesterday was an embarassing one for Gov. Phil Murphy’s Department of Education. At the public meeting of the State Board […]
December 7, 2021
The following letter expresses “alarm” at the dumbing-down of math standards, with particular reference to a new initiative in California that offers students a pathway […]
November 4, 2019
Gov. Phil Murphy just announced a statewide “Computer Science for All” plan that allocates $2 million in state grants “to help schools establish advanced, high-quality […]
March 22, 2018
The public school advocacy group called We Raise NJ just released a the results of a recent poll exploring NJ residents’ views on current course […]