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 […]
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January 16, 2024
In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Phil Murphy promised that New Jersey will reform the way it teaches reading. “We will […]
January 16, 2024
New data and analysis from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ) identifies New Jersey as “weak” on policies that prepare and support teachers to […]
November 30, 2023
Ed. Note: Below is a press release from the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a highly-regarded nonprofit, nonpartisan organization solely dedicated to issues of […]
September 18, 2023
By now we’ve all heard about the Science of Reading, the dawning understanding that children don’t absorb literacy through osmosis and context clues but need […]
August 9, 2023
One of the percolating issues in K-12 education is the “science of reading,” a research-based approach to teaching students literacy. New Jersey is one of […]
July 18, 2023
There’s been no shortage of research exploring how American public schools were, as Emily Hanford coined it, “sold a story” about how to teach young […]
June 15, 2023
The National Center on Teacher Quality released a report this week grading 693 undergraduate and graduate teacher training programs across the country on how well […]
April 5, 2021
As we head into the final term of the 2020-2021 school year (and kick its butt on the way out the door), policy-makers, school leaders, […]
February 25, 2020
The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), as part its recent Teacher Prep Review, just evaluated a total of 2,506 undergraduate and graduate elementary, secondary, […]
October 8, 2019
Two weeks ago Governor Phil Murphy was the guest speaker at Rider University’s Rebovich Institute for Politics’ “Governing New Jersey” series.* As reported by always-reliable […]
August 23, 2019
In October of 2012, the Newark Teachers Union signed a contract with then-Superintendent Cami Anderson that was celebrated as a win for teachers and students. […]