Here's a nice clear metric for telling when you have a problem in your school district. PIX11 reports that in 2014-2015, the school d...

The Red Bank, NJ, school system is actually a tiny little thing. Three boroughs (Red Bank, Little Silver and Shrewsbury) run their own K-8 s...

After four years of consistently disastrous misleadership, Cami Anderson will be stepping down as head of Newark Schools. The announcement...

Friday, the students of Newark took to the streets. Thousands of students. Students from many different schools within the city. They took t...

The news from New Jersey is that the legislature is very close to banning using the Big Standardized Test on students in Kindergarten throu...

The mayor of a state's largest city joins protestors in blocking the main street during rush hour. Just imagine how that would play out ...

Look at this. Just look at this. I believe that WE WILL WIN! LIKE Our Page Newark Students Union NJ Communities United!!! Posted b...

President Obama has called charter schools " incubators of innovation " and " laboratories of innovation," and he has d...

The Arizona Capitol Times last week ran an op-ed from a concerned citizen who wants to stick up for the beleaguered common core standards. R...

[Update: Okay, that didn't take long. According to a piece posted on NJ.com within the last hour, Anderson has met with the student grou...

Laura McKenna is a former poli-sci professor, pretty entertaining blogger and suburban mother of a child with special needs. She is, by her ...

A week ago I brought the story of an attempt by the New Jersey Charter School Association to shut down Dr. Julia Sass Rubin (a Rutgers prof...

I've been staring into the reformy abyss for over a year, and that involves such a general ongoing background level of outrage that it t...

Writer-researcher Mark Weber published a piece about charters on NJSpotlight this week that deals with charter schools in New Jersey, but wh...

Today David Hespe, the acting education commissioner in New Jersey, sent out a letter to Chief School Administrators, Charter School Lead P...