Is Record-High State Aid to Schools Really Just a Numbers Game?
By John Mooney Nonpartisan analysis shows districts getting less than total received in 2009-2010 In touting his proposed state…
How Did College Education Become So Ridiculously Expensive?
America wasn’t always riddled with student loan debt. Here’s the twisted truth behind what caused the cost of higher…
State’s ‘One Newark’ Plan May be Facing Tough Audience in Trenton
By John Mooney Some legislators have already made displeasure known — critics, union members, community organizers to be on…
Billionaire backed education groups battle teachers unions in state races
Rachel Baye, CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY Three weeks before Tennessee’s August 2012 primary election, state Rep. John DeBerry Jr.’s…
Rutgers president reaffirms selection of Condoleezza Rice as commencement speaker
By Keith Sergeant […] Robert Boikess, a Rutgers professor in the chemistry and chemical biology department who introduced the…
What’s Really Behind Education Policy in Newark?
By Andrew Elrod, Truthout Ever since Newark Public Schools (NPS) Superintendent Cami Anderson’s December announcement of her district’s turnaround…
For Rutgers athletics, cost of near-solvency by 2022 will be expensive
By Craig Wolff/The Star-Ledger Rutgers University, banking on the promise of new wealth when it joins the affluent Big…
Equalizers No More
Politics thwart colleges’ role in upward mobility By Suzanne Mettler The American system of higher education is in crisis….
An Era of Neglect
How public colleges were crowded out, beaten up, and failed to fight back By Karin Fischer and Jack Stripling…
Can Christie’s plan for longer school days boost U.S. education? A Q&A
By Julie O’Connor/The Star-Ledger Gov. Chris Christie’s right: In this competitive new world, our kids are falling behind. On…
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