April 4, 2013
Jon Chait explains that reacting to the Atlanta test cheating scandal by blaming teacher incentives based on high-stakes tests is “perverse” and illogical: Incentivizing any […]
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April 4, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks looks at the state takeover of Camden Public Schools in the context of NJ’s successful Abbott preschools. Two weeks […]
April 3, 2013
Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a Nobel Prize on his resume. […]
April 2, 2013
At last night’s NJ Spotlight Roundtable entitled “Camden Schools and the Future of Urban Education in New Jersey, Camden School Board Member Sean Brown (a […]
April 1, 2013
Timing of State Takeover: Mark Murphy in today’s NJ Spotlight considers “the plight of the kids caught in Camden with nowhere else to go. Suffice […]
March 28, 2013
Today’s Star-Ledger reports that the Superintendent of West Winsor/Plainsboro Public Schools (Mercer County), Victoria Kniewel, is leaving in order to avoid a salary cut. Her […]
March 27, 2013
NJ School Board’s Larry Feinsod on how LIFO, or seniority-based layoffs, is “an impediment to instructional excellence”: Just as tenure was in dire need of […]
March 27, 2013
Read my column today at NJ Spotlight which considers NJ’s hotly-contested Opportunity Scholarship Act, or “the voucher bill.” In 1994, Gov. Christie Whitman announced a […]
March 26, 2013
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks is titled “Christie Doesn’t Trust Camden to Pick New Superintendent”: Why did the State take over Camden’s public schools? […]
March 25, 2013
From this morning’s Philadelphia Inquirer: TRENTON – Gov. Christie plans to announce Monday that he is taking the extraordinary step of putting the educational and […]
March 24, 2013
The Star-Ledger, the Asbury Park Press, and NJ Spotlight cover the new report out on the effectiveness of NJ’s Abbott Preschool Program, which shows that […]
March 22, 2013
Ryan Hill, President of the TEAM Academy Charter Schools in Newark, regarding the new KIPP schools to be built and operated in Camden under the […]