September 25, 2009
Yesterday, Education Secretary Arne Duncan called education “the civil rights issue of our generation.” It’s certainly the civil rights issue of New Jersey. Check this […]
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August 28, 2009
In an op-ed in the New York Times today, Tom Loveless and Michael Petrelli argue that our brightest students are suffering from “benign neglect” due […]
August 26, 2009
SAT scores are in the news today. The Star-Ledger’s lede is that New Jersey students’ average SAT scores “inched upward one point this year,” though […]
August 24, 2009
The State DOE trumpeted the news last week: 99.7% of New Jersey classroom teachers are Highly Qualified! Declared Education Commissioner Lucille Davy, this victory “represent(s) […]
February 24, 2009
What happens when a school gets flagged enough times by the NCLB watchdogs to merit the dreaded sanction “Implement Restructuring Plan?” It’s happening in Willingboro […]
February 15, 2009
Prison Prep?: Martin Perez, of the Latino Leadership Alliance of NJ, testifies on the connection between failing schools in cities like Newark and Camden, wasted […]
February 4, 2009
The N.J. School Report Card data came out today and it’s a bit sobering. We’re sure there’ll be some punchy spin from Lucille Davy and […]
November 6, 2008
In a memo released Monday, Education Commissioner Lucille Davy announced that the U.S. Department of Education had approved some New Jersey slippage in our nation’s […]
October 27, 2008
Brace yourselves. The new scores for the state assessments are coming out and they’re not pretty. Two distinct elements contribute to the lack of glamour: […]
October 22, 2008
Let’s take a closer look at what consolidation of school districts would mean for students and families. Here’s a couple of points to keep in […]
October 13, 2008
There’s daily chatter about the tussle in New Jersey between local school districts and the State Department of Education. Our beloved system of home rule […]
September 26, 2008
The national journal Science just published a report on how the No Child Left Behind academic benchmarks will lead to a “widespread failure” among California’s […]