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Thursday, September 18, 2014

9-18-14 Jersey Jazzman - David Boies's Flim-Flam on Tenure

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David Boies's Flim-Flam on Tenure
I suspect that celebrity lawyer David Boies -- recruited by celebrity education non-expert Campbell Brown to lead the fight against teacher tenure -- has begun to realize he can't possibly win his case against educator due process on the merits. So he's doing what all lawyers do when they find themselves with a dud of a case: obscuring the issue at hand by conflating it with other unrelated matter
9-14-14 Jersey Jazzman - Once Again, @tomamoran Gets Charter Schools Wrong
Jersey Jazzman: Once Again, @tomamoran Gets Charter Schools WrongSo long as Tom Moran, Editorial Page Editor of the Star-Ledger, insists on publishing pieces about education full of omissions and half-truths, I have no choice but to continue to set the record straight and correct him.Today's piece from Moran is about Hoboken Dual Language Charter School (HoLa), a dual-immersion language school I h