May 31, 2012
My post today at WHYY Newsworks looks at the recent class size kerfuffle instigated by Mitt Romney’s visit to a Philadelphia charter school: Mitt Romney […]
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May 30, 2012
Today’s New York Times op-ed page features a must-read by James E. Ryan, author of “Five Miles Away, a World Apart: One City, Two Schools, […]
May 29, 2012
Today’s Star-Ledger describes a program in Newark, the Law and Education Empowerment Project (NJ LEEP), that offers highly-motivated students an intensive remediation program in order […]
May 27, 2012
An audit of the NJ DOE’s oversight of charter schools finds that there is, according to NJ Spotlight, “a host of problems,” including a lack […]
May 24, 2012
The big education story today is Mitt Romney’s “education platform,” which was unveiled, curiously, during a speech to the Latino Coalition (where he didn’t mention […]
May 24, 2012
From my post today at WHYY Newsworks,”What’s More Important: Local Control or Student Outcomes?” In New Jersey, nothing gets our blood boiling faster than 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 […]
May 23, 2012
Education Law Center, standard bearer for poor minority students in New Jersey, issued a press release yesterday charging that Gov. Christie and Ed. Comm. Cerf, […]
May 21, 2012
Patrick McQuinn of Drew University has an important article in EducationNext that asks, “are advocacy organizations” – like Democrats for Education Reform, 50Can, Students First, […]
May 20, 2012
From today’s New York Times editorial by David Kirp on the resegregation of America’s schools and the burden that places on poor minority children: A […]
May 20, 2012
Charter School Update: The Star-Ledger, in an article today, refers to “the Christie administration’s increasingly firm stance against low-performing charters.” In that context, the trustees […]
May 18, 2012
1) New Jersey Administrative Law Judge Jeff Masin has ruled that even though a special education teacher mocked one of his students, called him a […]