December 18, 2012
From NJ Ed. Comm. Chris Cerf’s just-released Education Funding Report: It is the Department’s hope that in considering changes to the SFRA funding formula, the […]
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December 16, 2012
Today it’s too hard to just start breezily listing this week’s education stories. So let’s start with this. NJ Spotlight looks at schools still struggling […]
December 14, 2012
A few thoughts on Cami Anderson’s recent “data-driven, frank discussion” of the gaps between Newark’s traditional public schools and alternatives offered to children: charters and […]
December 14, 2012
Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter schools and found that, while […]
December 14, 2012
In next week’s New Yorker, Louis Menand has a wonderful discussion about homework, riffing off French President François Hollande’s recent announcement at the Sorbonne that […]
December 13, 2012
New Jersey School Boards Association has no truck with a new DOE proposal that would let school superintendents unilaterally call for school board meetings. Currently, […]
December 13, 2012
Michael Stryer, a high school teacher in Los Angeles (currently on leave) is a member of United Teachers Los Angeles and director of the Teachers […]
December 13, 2012
That’s the subject of my post today at WHYY’s Newsworks, which looks at the differing views of Cory Booker, Barbara Buono, Dick Codey, and Steve […]
December 11, 2012
At last week’s meeting of the NJ State Board of Education, reports the Courier-Post, much attention was focused on the dismal high school graduation rate […]
December 11, 2012
From the Star-Ledger: Spending on school board races across the state this year fell to $597,000, a figure about one third of the amount spent […]
December 10, 2012
Here’s my latest post on WHYY’s Newsworks on the CREDO study, which examines charter school performance in NJ. Last week Stanford University’s Center for Research […]
December 9, 2012
New Jersey is starting a Teach for America-ish program, creating a partnership with the Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellowship Foundation to recruit “top collegiate science and […]