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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Buono sketches education policy in meeting with school advocates
By Matthew McGrath, Staff Writer. The Record. NEWARK — Barbara Buono, the Democratic nominee for governor, pledged during a…
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Spotlight Q&A: Arthur Levine On Raising The Bar For New Teachers
By John Mooney Renowned critic of traditional teacher-education programs talks about theory versus practice and how to raise the…
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Walton foundation donates $2 million to Newark Teach For America
By Dan Goldberg/The Star-Ledger NEWARK — Newark’s Teach for America is getting a boost from the Walton Family Foundation,…
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NJ Charter Schools Assoc. President Doesn’t Expect School Closures to Be a Trend
Watch NJ Charter Schools Association President Discusses Closures on PBS. See more from NJToday.
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Op-Ed: Putting NJ High School Diplomas to the Test
By Stan Karp What will Common Core exams mean for the state’s proficiency rates? There were more than 100,000…
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The Secret to One High-Poverty School District’s Success
How Union City, NJ schools achieved huge gains. Hint: It wasn’t via corporate school reform. The following is a…
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Explainer: Abbott V. Burke, Changing The Rules For Funding Schools
By John Mooney A series of state Supreme Court rulings starting in 1985, Abbott v. Burke continues to shape…
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New Charter School Looks Hopefully to the Future
Private academy in Newark is first in state to switch to become public charter. By John Mooney. Fiorella Serrano…
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