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…
If Rutgers merges with UMDNJ, watch out Harvard
BY BOB HOLT, NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM Rutgers University says the proposed collaboration with the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New…
4 Years After Suspension, Faculty Senate Will Return to Rensselaer Polytechnic
More than four years after Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute suspended its Faculty Senate, faculty members on the New York campus…
Reconnecting McDowell
Reconnecting McDowell is a comprehensive, long-term effort to make educational improvement in McDowell County the route to a brighter…
Fighting Privatization, Occupy Activists at CUNY and UC Kick Into High Gear
Josh Eidelson Every afternoon last week, students, teachers, and neighbors gathered to hold classes on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza….
N.J. considering major high education changes
GEOFF MULVIHILL, The Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. – All three of New Jersey’s public research universities are now looking…
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…
Rutgers thaws pay freeze for selected non-union employees
Nic Corbett/The Star-Ledger NEW BRUNSWICK — Rutgers University is giving raises and holiday bonuses to less than one-fifth of…
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