October 21, 2016
On Wednesday Newark Superintendent Chris Cerf gave a speech at the American Enterprise Institute in which he reflected on the “pejorative connotations” of traditional school […]
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May 29, 2015
Commentators have noted similarities between Chris Christie’s reversal of support for the Common Core State Standards and Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal’s flip-flop. Jindal, who got […]
June 18, 2014
If the U.S. Department of Education’s warning to New York State is an harbinger of the fed’s reaction to states that delay using student test […]
February 18, 2014
Hot off the press, today’s column at NJ Spotlight: Someone ought to give Chris Cerf a flak suit as he parachutes out of Gov. Chris […]
February 11, 2014
As noted below, Chris Cerf, who just resigned as NJ Commissioner of Education, is going to work for Amplify Insight. Amplify Insight, run by former […]
May 30, 2013
Check out NJ Spotlight’s update on New Jersey’s progress towards implementing the promises made in our (third time’s the charm) winning application to the federal […]
November 26, 2012
Earlier this month Jersey City Education Association President Ron Greco refused to sign off on the district’s $40 million Race to the Top application (see […]
November 21, 2012
Ron Greco, President of the Jersey City, is featured in a story in today’s NJ Spotlight on the latest district-specific round of the federal education […]
August 23, 2012
My post today at WHYY Newsworks addresses Gov. Christie’s keynote at the GOP Convention next week, particularly the gap between his educational agenda and the […]
July 5, 2012
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at a a potential casualty of the Legislature’s budget debate: NJ’s Regional Achievement Centers, a centerpiece of the […]
May 23, 2012
Chester Finn comments on “a fascinating tidbit” from Arne Duncan’s new Race To The Top heat, which is directed at individual school districts rather than […]
March 19, 2012
That’s the subject of my column today at NJ Spotlight. Over the past few months, the Christie Administration has intensified its focus on New Jersey’s […]