Colleges expand housing options through public-private partnerships
By Tom De Poto/The Star-Ledger Lior Naor is a junior at Rutgers University living in Rockoff Hall in downtown…
Perth Amboy to host open house for innovative math program
PERTH AMBOY — A community open house showcasing an new approach to middle school math education will be held…
Newark Schools Chief Wants Teacher Performance Included in Layoff Criteria
By John Mooney Union leaders leap to defense of long-established contractual practice of basing job cuts on years of…
Subsidy of Rutgers athletics jumps 67.9 percent to $47 million
By Keith Sargeant and Steve Berkowitz In order to fund a sports program that university officials say will generate…
Federal Lawsuit Accuses For-Profit Schools of Fraud
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA LINWOOD, N.J. — It was the electronic monitor around a student’s ankle that first gave Kelli…
Opinion: Looking Closely at the Dangerous Legacy of Commissioner Chris Cerf
By Mark Weber The state education chief’s so-called reforms may have stirred up something more powerful than frustration and…
Movement to Delay New School Standards, Testing Gains Support
By John Mooney Legislators, education groups find common ground in talk of delaying at least some parts of Common…
IRS Suggests ‘Reasonable’ Ways of Calculating Adjuncts’ Hours
By Audrey Williams June The Internal Revenue Service has issued final rules on how colleges should calculate adjuncts’ workloads…
Veteran NJ college president George Pruitt elected head of powerful accreditation group
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger TRENTON — George Pruitt, president of Thomas Edison State College, will serve as the…
The Problem with School ‘Choice’
By Jessie B. Ramey Public schools are neither cars nor boxes of cereal. Let’s stop treating them like they…
The Teacher Commitment That Cannot Be Evaluated With Tests
By John Nichols Teachers, parents and students are pushing back against high-stakes testing, over-testing and the fantasy that education…
Free Community College? Tennessee Proposal Draws Praise and Concerns
By Eric Kelderman In recent years, nearly every state in the nation has been scrambling to find cost-effective ways…
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