Why push-back against charters? Because they don’t deliver the goods.
Given the Star Ledger’s overtly biased opinions about public education and teachers—most notably their New Year’s day work of…
Urban Hope Act / What’s the rush?
It happens every year when a legislative session is about to end. State lawmakers rush to vote on a…
Fast-Tracked and Rewritten Bill Could Put Some Public Schools Under Private Management
The Urban Hope Act could bring new public schools — with some for-profit management — to some of Jersey’s…
Chris Christie repeats misleading statistic on Newark’s high school graduation rate
Gov. Chris Christie pushes his plans to reform New Jersey public schools using student performance in urban school districts…
Professor: Educating New Jersey’s impoverished kids costs more
BY GEOFF MULVIHILL, ASSOCIATED PRESS One in a periodic series on efforts to remake New Jersey’s education system. NEW…
The Year in Research on Market-based Education Reform: 2011 Edition
Matthew Di Carlo, Senior Fellow, Albert Shanker Institute If 2010 was the year of the bombshell in research in the…
Occupy Education
Liza Featherstone “Mic check! MIC CHECK! Let the Puppet show begin! LET THE PUPPET SHOW BEGIN!” The demonstrators who…
Newark to Adopt National College Entrance Exam
Trying to get a better fix on student needs, district plans to add ACT to current tests By John…
Reconnecting McDowell
Reconnecting McDowell is a comprehensive, long-term effort to make educational improvement in McDowell County the route to a brighter…
N.J. schools grow more dangerous as violence statistics increase
By Ted Sherman/The Star-Ledger New Jersey schools grew more dangerous last year, with steadily increasing reports of violence in…
50 briefly occupy N.J. Department of Education lobby to protest charter schools
By Christopher Baxter/Statehouse Bureau TRENTON — Protesters angry about the Christie administration’s charter school initiatives briefly occupied the lobby…
Don’t fall for governor’s reform scam
Mike Spina In a recent article, Derrell Bradford, executive director of Better Education for Kids and a member of…
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