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Monday, August 31, 2020

State Aid Is School Aid

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Here in the Northeast, schools are getting ready to reopen in what can only be called a gigantic experiment in the middle of pandemic with a...
Wednesday, July 29, 2020

How To Stop Magical Thinking In School Reopening Plans

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In the past few weeks, a new literary genre has emerged in America's media outlets: the school reopening op-ed. Almost always written by...
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Wednesday, July 15, 2020

A Response To Critics Of My Research On NJ Teachers

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Earlier this week, the Sunshine Sunlight Policy Center put out a critique of my report , published by the New Jersey Policy Perspective, o...
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Thursday, July 2, 2020

How Schools Work: A Practical Guide for Policymakers During a Pandemic

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This post, unlike most of the others on this blog, does not rely on data analysis or research reviews. It is, instead, the observations of s...
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Friday, June 26, 2020

What an Actual School Reopening Plan Looks Like

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Several states, particularly in the Northeast, have begun releasing their plans to reopen K-12 schools. Connecticut, for example, just relea...
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Wednesday, June 17, 2020

On Comparing Education Spending Across Time

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I’ve noticed a lot of back-and-forth recently on social media about education spending – specifically, on how spending has changed over the...
Sunday, April 5, 2020

Can NJ Afford To Continue Subsidizing Private Schools?

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Regardless of what happens next with Covid-19, it's clear that the budgets of states like New Jersey are in for a very, very tough time ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2020

Ten Years of Jersey Jazzman

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I'll keep this short, I promise... Ten years ago, I found myself increasingly frustrated by the nonsense I kept reading and hearing ab...
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Monday, March 23, 2020

Education Policies We Should Stop Right Now: An Incomplete List

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ADDING: Here's another one for the list: I am against school vouchers, especially the way they are ( not ) regulated these days. However...
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