This Week’s Sign of the Edu-pocalypse
After a clerical error cost New Jersey the shot at $400 million in Race to the Top grant money, Governor Chris Christie asks a fair question: “The first part of it is the mistake of putting the wrong...
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New Jersey Starved the Pension Beast
New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has been in the news a lot lately for his handling of the Garden State’s budget crisis around government-worker benefits. The New York Times did a piece earlier this...
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New Jersey Governor Chris Christie has just released his new budget proposal, and it includes a deal on public-sector retirements: Christie’s analysis also includes a $506 million payment into the...
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In Greece, the two-day general strike called in response to the Parliament’s vote to slash spending to avoid defaulting on international loans turned violent, with clashes between police and protesters...
View ArticleQuick Hits 7.28.11
Federal aid for struggling New Jersey schools. The New Jersey Department of Education selected 9 persistently failing schools (out of 28 who applied) to receive a share of $55 million in federal aid. 5...
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Things that make you go hmmm. Anheuser-Busch will pay the University of Iowa $185,000 over four years to include its logo alongside the university’s logo on merchandise and advertisements. The money,...
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Teacher readiness. A teacher trainer writes about edTPA, a new assessment process for teachers-to-be that gauges whether they’re ready for the classroom. Early field-test results showed that many...
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Transferring intelligence. Teachers are earning millions by selling their lesson plans to other teachers through TeacherspayTeachers, an online program that strives to be the iTunes of education. The...
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