Laura Waters
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Commentary: Who has the biggest stake in NJ’s pension reform
Two weeks ago, timed precisely to coincide with Governor Christie’s budget address, New Jersey’s Study Commission on Pension ...
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Commentary: NJ students take PARCC tests and survive
This week many of New Jersey’s students took PARCC tests, the new computer-based stan ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Why charters get more support in Camden than Philadelphia
On Tuesday evening, just before the start of the Camden City Public Schools board meeting, 50 Camden parents handed Superinten ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Anti-testing folk, It’s time to go digital
Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in a PARCC simulation, a forty-five minute dress ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Like it or not, Camden isn’t the only district using the ‘graduation loophole’
On Monday the ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Patrick Diegnan’s anti-testing bill is really about teacher tenure
New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s (D-South Plainfield) new opt-out-of-testing proposal, ...
10 years ago
Commentary: N.J.’s anti-testing movement is more about teachers than students
The politics of standardized testing has kicked into overdrive in New Jersey. Last Friday the “Study Commission on the Use o ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Gov Christie gives the bird to a school choice program almost everyone loves
“It’s a great program,” says New Jersey Senate President Steve Sweeney. It “meets an important need, ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Standardized testing opponents find themselves on the wrong side of civil rights
On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of N ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Why a Christie presidential bid is good for New Jersey’s teachers union
The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as a posse of Tea Part ...
10 years ago
Commentary: Throwing money at the ‘Bacon districts’ won’t solve their problems
The Education Law Center is in a rut. The ELC is an organization that describes itself as “the leading voice for N ...
10 years ago
Commentary: When unions attack standardized testing they should at least do their homework
Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a “ ...
10 years ago