April 24, 2012
NJ Assemblyman John Burzichelli is all hot under the collar because Gov. Christie didn’t follow through on legislation passed during the Corzine Administration that would […]
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April 24, 2012
NJ Spotlight has a scoop today: the online paper filed an Open Public Records Request with the State and received Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson’s contract. […]
April 23, 2012
Adam Emerson over at Fordham’s Education Gadfly analyzes a new charter school bill proposed in the Connecticut Legislature that would impose an “opt-out” lottery, requiring […]
April 23, 2012
Today’s Trenton Times reports on a long-proposed charter for a Mandarin-immersion school, Princeton International Academy Charter School. PIACS’s application sparked the creation of a coalition […]
April 23, 2012
Michael Winerip, the New York Times education writer, strikes another blow for Luddites everywhere with today’s article on the use of “an automated reader developed […]
April 22, 2012
Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has been selected as one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People.” In other Newark school news, the Star-Ledger examines the […]
April 20, 2012
David Brooks, in today’s New York Times, discusses the need for value-added evaluations of colleges, given that ” that nearly half the students showed no […]
April 19, 2012
On Tuesday I looked at the peculiar antics at Lakewood Public Schools, where the Board shifted to November elections and then, at a meeting where […]
April 19, 2012
My piece today at WHYY Newsworks looks at the factors that led to a dramatic turnaround for a long-sought piece of legislation. Check it out!
April 17, 2012
For seventy-three (lonely) New Jersey school districts, today is election day. In early February the State Legislature passed a bill allowing school boards to bypass […]
April 16, 2012
Mitt Romney’s “Hot Mic Moment” (hat tip: Charlie Barone) as reported by First Read: Mitt Romney said he learned this advice from his unsuccessful 1994 […]
April 16, 2012
Education Commissioner Chris Cerf announced last year that the DOE would reorganize its local oversight from individual county offices to 7 Regional Achievement Centers (RAC’s), […]