May 8, 2012
John Mooney has an important piece today in NJ Spotlight on the decision by Ed. Comm. Cerf and the DOE to wean NJ public high […]
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May 4, 2012
Bob Braun at the Star-Ledger had a column yesterday that slammed the Christie Administration’s “dubious educational policy decisions made behind closed doors.” Those decisions include […]
July 26, 2010
New Jersey may have one of the nation’s top high school graduation rates, but when it comes to college just 40.9 percent of residents hold […]
July 19, 2010
Today the Courier-Post examines the dipping graduation rates in Camden City’s five public high schools, where “at least 100 fewer seniors graduated…June 30 than last […]
July 15, 2010
James Ahearn takes on the Special Review Assessment in The Record, reviewing how students would take the SRA after failing the traditional high school proficiency […]
May 3, 2010
Are the massive failure rates of students who took this year’s Alternative High School Assessment (AHSA) a failure of teaching or testing? That’s the heart […]
April 27, 2010
My heart is crushed right now just because he worked hard to reach this point,” [Beyonka] Walden-Utley said about her youngest son. “Please understand, I […]
April 19, 2010
To recap: the Education Law Center is irate because this past January the vast majority of the 10,000 high school seniors who couldn’t pass the […]
April 19, 2010
Last Tuesday the Education Law Center (ELC) sent a letter to Commissioner Bret Schundler requesting that he “set aside the results of last January’s Alternate […]
March 29, 2010
The Trenton Times looks at the impact of the DOE’s decision to amend the rules surrounding the Special Review Assessment, the test given to high […]
February 1, 2010
In yesterday’s Trenton Times Drs. James Deneen and Carmen Catanese propose a three-part fix for Trenton Central High School, one of NJ’s most dysfunctional educational […]
January 5, 2010
The Senate Assembly Education Committee was told yesterday afternoon that we can improve our failing urban schools by pairing successful, experienced teachers with struggling students, […]