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 […]
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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 […]
December 2, 2009
Thomas Carroll, President of the Foundation for Education Reform & Accountability, has a piece in the New York Post on why New York State will […]
September 17, 2009
The school board of a well-to-do district in Monmouth County, Marlboro K-8 School District Board of Education, has found their inner Hulk and gone rogue […]
September 14, 2009
on why union members should vote for Corzine instead of Christie. Among the key issues: Corzine “does not support [merit pay] because it creates a […]
August 21, 2009
On Wednesday, Ed Comm Lucille Davy told the Star-Ledger that, while she was gratified that almost 100% of N.J. public school teachers are “highly qualified,” […]
July 22, 2009
Here’s Bill Gates, speaking yesterday at the National Conference of State Legislatures: On expanding the growth of charter schools: Caps should be lifted for charter […]
June 2, 2009
Joan Whitlow, formerly a Star-Ledger editorialist and now with New Jersey Newsroom, opines that we should send teachers to summer school: Some of what is […]
May 5, 2009
P.B.S. has a nifty online debate on merit pay for teachers between Dennis Van Roekel, president of the National Education Association and Gary Ritter, associate […]
March 13, 2009
The Record comes out in favor of at least trying some form of merit pay in New Jersey: The New Jersey School Boards Association knows […]
March 10, 2009
The Wall Street Journal reports today that President Obama will announce his support for merit pay for teachers: The merit pay proposal would significantly expand […]
January 12, 2009
Today’s Wall St Journal features a letter from Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, and Al Sharpton, erstwhile flamethrower, reminding […]