February 11, 2015
The Garden State’s anti-testing crowd continues to intensify its opposition to the PARCC assessments and the media is responding this week with a plethora of […]
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February 5, 2015
It starts here: New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s (D-South Plainfield) new opt-out-of-testing proposal, A-4165, guts the ability of parents, teachers, schools, and the state […]
February 2, 2015
Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC is warning that the U.S. […]
January 29, 2015
Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory Booker or Cami Anderson or […]
January 27, 2015
My new Spotlight column is out today. It starts here: News from Newark Public Schools is alarming. Earlier this month state legislators who sit on […]
January 26, 2015
On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See today’s NJ Spotlight for details.) […]
January 22, 2015
It starts here: “It’s a great program,” says New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney. It “meets an important need, and it does so utilizing New […]
January 16, 2015
Mike Antonucci at Intercepts is performing a valuable public service as he drills down on the finances of each state’s NEA chapter. Yesterday he posted […]
January 8, 2015
It starts here: The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as a posse of Tea […]
January 5, 2015
There are many arguments against the way we back-load teacher compensation, i.e., awarding small annual salary increases to newer teachers while granting comparatively large salary […]
December 11, 2014
It starts here: Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a “massive position statement” detailing its “defiant opposition to […]
December 2, 2014
The indefatigable Mike Antonucci at the Education Intelligence Agency has a spreadsheet of the 2012-2013 financial status of all NEA affiliates. For you Jerseyites, NJEA […]