NJ Schools Turn to Familiar Instrument to Measure Teacher Performance
By John Mooney Charlotte Danielson talks about the challenges as her “Frameworks for Teaching” is adopted by more than…
A City Borrows So Its Schools Open on Time
The unusual situation in Philadelphia stems from a combination of politics and long-term structural problems. By Rick Lyman and…
Seeking Better Teachers, City Evaluates Local Colleges That Train Them
By Jabin Botsford/The New York Times In an effort to shake up institutions that have been criticized as too…
Radical thinking on college tuition: Editorial
By Star-Ledger Editorial Board Tuition at New Jersey’s state universities is among the country’s most expensive. Only Vermont and…
One year after state tenure overhaul, participants optimistic about new process
By Terrence T. McDonald/The Jersey Journal Jersey City public-school teachers have not fared well under the state’s tenure overhaul,…
8 Things You Should Know About Corporations Like Pearson that Make Huge Profits from Standardized Tests
Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act and Obama’s Race to the Top grant program means testing giants are raking…
Who’s Afraid of Radical History?
Mitch Daniels’s covert war on Howard Zinn’s A People’s History of the United States. A recent Associated Press expose—drawing…
Are Street Protests Next in the Fight Over Education Reform?
Showdowns in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City and beyond have turned out parents and teachers in droves—and revealed how…
Jeff Bezos’s Other Endeavor: Charter Schools, Neoliberal Education Reforms
By Lee Fang […] There’s one area where Bezos has been hyper-active, but it is largely unknown to the…
Opinion: Base N.J. aid to colleges on student performance, not enrollment
By Troy Singleton When Rutgers University’s Board of Governors voted last month to raise tuition 3.3 percent amid student…
Sweeney proposes bill to study radically different tuition model
By Matt Friedman and Kelly Heyboer/The Star-Ledger TRENTON — What if New Jersey college students didn’t have to pay…
Student Loan Bill Breezes On
By Jeremy W. Peters and Ashley Parker WASHINGTON — Something pretty rare happened in Congress on Wednesday: it approved…
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