Jersey Jazzman: “‘Twas the Night Before PISA Day!”
Please read Jersey Jazzman’s hilarious spoof on “The Night Before Christmas.” He anticipates not the joy of Christmas and Santa, but the much-anticipated release of PISA scores, when Arne Duncan gets to tell the nation once again how terrible American education is and how we are losing the global competition and why we are still a nation at risk. He will conveniently overlook the fact that he is
'Twas the Night Before PISA Day!
'Twas the night before PISA Day, when all through the foundationsThe wonks were all dreaming about Bill Gates's donations;The rankings were crafted for each nation with care,In hopes that more grants would come from billionaires;The children were tested and stressed at their desks;While visions of bubble sheets made them feel quite grotesque;Suburban moms in their 'kerchiefs, and dads in their cap
12-1-13 Jersey Jazzman
Jersey Jazzman: Why Won't Charter Cheerleaders Acknowledge The Facts?I've got to give my old buddy Tom Moran, chief of the op-ed page at the Star-Ledger credit: he managed to write a column on education today where he didn't blame the teachers unions for everything. Must have been hard to repress those urges...Cami Anderson, the superintendent of Newark schools, has taken enormous heat for nurturi