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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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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Skepticism Abounds at Education Dept.’s College-Ratings Symposium
By Kelly Field Pity the poor data geeks at the National Center for Education Statistics. The Education Department has…
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Charters to cost School District $25 million more than anticipated
By Martha Woodall, Inquirer Staff Writer The Philadelphia School District has seen its charter school costs soar at the…
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