October 10, 2012
Eduwonk is featuring sparring bloggers this week, one representing the Mitt Romney campaign and one representing Barack Obama’s. Today, Marty West, a professor at Harvard […]
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October 8, 2012
There’s an item from Gov. Romney’s education agenda that hasn’t gotten enough notice, and it’s not his seesaw on whether he’s going to cut education […]
October 4, 2012
My post today at WHYY’s Newsworks is called “Camden’s Rejection of Private School Managers Highlights Bigger Debate Over Urban Education. Here’s the first part: Over […]
October 3, 2012
What’s crackin’, people. It’s been too long. I’m Smarick. I used to be an inveterate blogger and tweeter. I disappeared for a couple years, but […]
October 2, 2012
EdWeek’s special education blog is reporting that the U.S. Department of Education has finished its investigation of the East Orange Public Schools District and determined […]
October 1, 2012
Everyone’s tweeting Gov. Mitt Romney’s comments to NBC’s Brian Williams about early education. Politics K-12 has the write-up. In an interview at NBC’s Education Nation […]
October 1, 2012
What to make of the debacle in Camden last week when the School Board there, considering four proposals to build new schools, declined to approve […]
September 30, 2012
The Courier Times Editorial Board hopes that the Camden School Board’s rejection of all four proposals for charter schools (see post below) isn’t “a case […]
September 28, 2012
In what the local media are calling a “surprise move,” the Camden School Board rejected all applicants who proposed building and running new schools under […]
September 28, 2012
In Trenton Public Schools, reports the Trenton Times, Monica Carmichael has directed the early childhood development program since 2008, apparently to great acclaim. (About 2,000 […]
September 27, 2012
Matt Miller, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, examines the school funding inequities between wealthy suburban districts and neighboring inner cities: Lost in […]
September 27, 2012
My WHYY Newsworks post this week looks at New Jersey’s high costs associated with special education, specifically our habit of sending children with disabilities to […]