Friday, January 25, 2013
The creator of a controversial documentary on NJ schools is holding a conference in East Windsor this weekend, open to anyone with questions about the school choice movement.
School choice is an issue that's coming into its own in New Jersey, and Hoboken resident and filmmaker Bob Bowdon has had something to do with that. "The Cartel", Bowdon's award-winning 2009 documentary on what he sees as the low quality and runaway spending of the state's schools, has had a large part in changing the conversation on how schools should operate. That question is going to be the centerpiece in one of the first-ever conferences on school choice in New Jersey. That conference, the New Jersey School Choice Summit, takes place this Sunday, January 27, from 3 pm to 6 pm at the Central New Jersey Conference Center at the Holiday Inn in East Windsor. "It's going to be kind of cool," Bowdon said. "Ordinary people can ask questions …
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Thursday, November 1, 2012
After Sandy batters Atlantic City, the state teachers' union cancels its annual gathering there.
New Jersey’s teachers won’t gather in Atlantic City for their annual convention for the first time in 158 years. The damage and ongoing problems left behind by monster storm Sandy forced the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA) to cancel its Nov. 8-9 conference at the shore town. NJEA said its convention is the largest gathering of its kind worldwide, and the sheer size helped make the final decision to cancel. “The NJEA Convention is a massive event, involving tens of thousands of people,” NJEA President Barbara Keshishian said. “We concluded it was simply not advisable to try to have that many people on the roads and using public transportation while so many communities are struggling to restore power and basic services to their …
Wednesday, September 21, 2011
The administration and the NJEA aren't battling over Christie's teacher evaluation plan -- at least not yet.
Fred Frangiosa's presence was conspicuous last week when Gov. Chris Christie visited a Bergenfield middle school to promote his plans for remaking teacher evaluation statewide. Frangiosa is president of the Bergenfield Education Association, and it is his union's 450 teachers who will help test the new system. Bergenfield is one of 10 pilot districts for Christie's plan. But there was Frangiosa, sitting in Christie's audience in a middle school classroom -- not a cheerleader for the plan, by any means, but not protesting it, either. "You can't sign off on something if you don't know what it is," Frangiosa said, "and you can't oppose it either. " His comments are indicative of the state of relations between Christie and the state's dominant…
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
A year after Schundler firing, Cerf starts anew on pivotal reform.
The timing may not be intentional, but the Christie administration’s announcement Thursday of its pilot teacher evaluation system in 11 districts came almost to the day on a conspicuous anniversary. It was a year ago -- and a week -- that Gov. Chris Christie fired Bret Schundler as his education commissioner over what was a mishap on the state’s failed application for federal Race to the Top money, a grant that aimed to put in place this very evaluation system statewide. A firestorm erupted and accusations flew, and tensions only heightened over how the administration was going to handle Christie’s central quest to tighten teacher accountability -- without a $400 million federal grant to help pay for it. Needless to say, and admittedly for…
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12:27 pm on Tuesday, April 16, 2013
Sal, Well said. Peer Pressure is a powerful motivator. According to Maslow being a "member of a group" (accepted, recognized, & status) are THE #2-3 & 4 human motivators. Safety/Shelter - #1. . To keep my daughter in line all I had to do was threaten to come to school in a Barney costume. That big purple dinosaur. Just the THOUGHT of being embarrassed in front of her school mates was enough. LOL… more ›