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…
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Occupy Education
Liza Featherstone “Mic check! MIC CHECK! Let the Puppet show begin! LET THE PUPPET SHOW BEGIN!” The demonstrators who…
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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…
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Reconnecting McDowell
Reconnecting McDowell is a comprehensive, long-term effort to make educational improvement in McDowell County the route to a brighter…
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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…
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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…
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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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The Opportunity Scholarship Act would be funded directly from public school budgets.
The Truth-O-Meter Says: “(The Opportunity Scholarship Act) would be funded directly from public school budgets. So it would absolutely…
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Profits and Questions at Online Charter Schools
Lance Murphey for The New York Times Nearly 60 percent of its students are behind grade level in math….
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State rejects Online Charter School
BY HOWARD PROSNITZ, STAFF WRITER Teaneck Suburbanite TEANECK – The Department of Education has rejected an application for an…
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Administration Reveals Which Charters Have Made the First Cut
More than half the applications weeded out, at least for now By John Mooney With every detail of its…
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Newark’s First Foray into Teacher Evaluation Pilot, with Teachers Front and Center
[…] Newark is one of 11 districts in the state piloting a controversial plan led by Gov. Chris Christie…
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