Obama’s Accreditation Proposals Surprise Higher-Education Leaders
By Eric Kelderman, Washington President Obama didn’t mention accreditation in his State of the Union address on Tuesday evening….
Newark Superintendent Turns Attention to Revamping High Schools
District-wide choice program to be key component of plan to improve 9th-through-12th grade academics By John Mooney A year…
Transparency Consensus
By Libby A. Nelson WASHINGTON — A proposal to require states to collect and disseminate data on college graduates’…
Rejecting the New Normal
By Colleen Flaherty Professors pushed back against what they called the “new normal” of higher education – namely that…
The Inconvenient Truth Of Education ‘Reform’
By Jeff Bryant Despite stated intentions to use education reform to advance civil rights, reform measures in their current…
Study: Many N.J. teachers wary of new evaluations
Associated Press TRENTON — School administrators in New Jersey districts that tested a new ways to evaluate teachers are…
Independent Report: Teachers Remain Skeptical About New Evaluation System
Study also raises concerns about deadlines and reliability, but lead author finds reasons to be optimistic By John Mooney…
AFTNJ Report Back from CFHE Conference
The Campaign for the Future of Higher Education (CFHE) is a grassroots national campaign to support quality higher education. CFHE’s…
Thank you messages from members
The AFTNJ Disaster Relief committee asked a few members to reproduce their thank-you notes after receiving assistance in recovering…
Politicians Threaten to Kill College Funding Over Israel Boycott Panel
By Alex Kane New York politicians are coming down hard on the college over its hosting of a panel…
PA: Teachers’ union reaches tentative agreement at state-run universities
Susan Snyder, Inquirer Staff Writer Faculty at Pennsylvania’s 14 state-run universities would receive minimal raises but face higher medical…
Conn. and Mass. Governors Propose Big Spending Increases for Higher Education
By Eric Kelderman The governors of Connecticut and Massachusetts are each calling for major increases in higher-education spending. But…
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