- »Opinion: Voucher Bills Fall Prey to False Advertising and Small Thinking
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We still need a voucher bill that does one thing well --serves the poorest kids in the worst schools.
- »Opinion: From Bad to Worse -- the Legislature Takes a Stab at Tenure Reform
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An unproven, unreliable framework for reform is no better -- and possibly worse -- than today's failed scheme.
- »Opinion: Urban Hope and the Do-Nothing Schools Development Authority
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The Urban Hope Act gives George Norcross just what he wants, a way to clean up Camden.
- »Opinion: Slow Down the School Reform Factory
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Mechanistically linking test scores to teacher evaluations means trouble not accountability.
- »Opinion: The Latest in School Reform -- Ambition and Arrogance
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NJ wants out of No Child Left Behind. Does it have anything better to offer?
- »Opinion: Fire. Aim. Ready. Why School Reformers Miss the Target
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The war of words about school reform makes meaningful dialogue impossible.
- »Opinion: Market Rules Trump School Regulations
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In capping superintendent salaries, the Christie administration seems to have forgotten the basic rule of supply and demand.
- »Opinion: Disrespecting Teachers and Teaching
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For the Department of Education, evaluating teachers is apparently neither science nor art.
- »Opinion: Abbott XXI, a Ruling for the Faint-Hearted
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The court and the governor could have used Abbott to help all poor kids. Now it's up to the legislature.
- »Opinion: Maryland 1, Morris County 0
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By opting to charge illegal aliens triple tuition, the County College of Morris takes a big step backward.
- »Opinion: Doing the Math on the Department of Education Interim Charter Report
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By assuming all poor kids are the same, the DOE can "prove" charters are better.
- »Opinion: The OSA Con Game
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Think the Opportunity Scholarship Act is going to help poor kids trapped in failing schools? Think again.
- »What Do OSA Advocates Have to Hide?
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An even dozen questions to slow down the Opportunity Scholarship Act so we all can see what it really says.
- »Opinion: Deception, Fiscal Irresponsibility, School Vouchers
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The school voucher program can't deliver on its promises, but it can help subsidize private schools across the state.
- »Opinion: The Hidden Peril in Christie's Superintendent Salary Caps
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Putting a lid on superintendent salaries encourages talented, committed candidates to look for work somewhere else, and that's very bad for the Garden State.
- »Opinion: Keeping the Task Force on Task
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The Teacher Effectiveness Task Force is too important to fail.
- »Opinion: Learning from Newark's Best Schools
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Concentrating on early literacy can transform schools and their students.
»Opinion: Newark Needs More than Facebook Reform-
The Christie, Booker, Zuckerberg extravaganza can't hide an inconvenient truth: Newark is in shambles.
»Opinion: OSA: Exploiting Poor Kids in Failed Schools-
Running the numbers makes it clear that the Opportunity Scholarship Act isn't about helping at-risk kids.
- »Opinion: Scholarship Act Puts Strange Spin on ‘Opportunity’
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Proposed voucher legislation redirects funds away from the very students who need help most.
- »Opinion: How Washington's Educational Models Help New Jersey Schools Fail
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The latest models for education reform refuse to acknowledge the real problem: the concentrated poverty that isolates the poorest students.
- »Opinion: The Disastrous Dismantling of Public Higher Education
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Ample evidence of how New Jersey’s politicians have agreed to forgo the proven benefits of investing in public colleges.
- »Opinion: Abbott Plaintiffs Have Strong Case but Weak Chance
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Welcome to 'Emerging' New Jersey, where consensus, centrist politics and common sense are only a memory.
- »Opinion: Charter Schools Are A Promise, Not a Panacea
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It's too easy to see charter schools as a cure-all for today's educational issues. The best charter schools teach valuable lessons, but they also argue for restraint in the claims often made.
