At Charter Schools, Short Careers by Choice
By MOTOKO RICH HOUSTON — Tyler Dowdy just started his third year of teaching at YES Prep West, a…
Ready for a $200K bachelor’s degree? Tuition at N.J. colleges continues to rise
By Kelly Heyboer/ The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Are students and parents ready for the $200,000 bachelor’s degree? As college…
Photos: Realizing the Dream 50th Anniversary March on DC
For jobs, peace and freedom
Photos: Health and Safety Training
Held by the AFT Health and Safety department and the AFTNJ Health and Safety Committee in New Brunswick.
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…
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…
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