Tara Murphy is a SPAN Resource Parent, a Volunteer Advocacy Ambassador for Autism Speaks, member of the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA), founder of Parenting Frontier, and
This is an op-ed by Janellen Duffy, a senior adviser to JerseyCAN: The New Jersey Campaign for Achievement Now. She served as education policy adviser
This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who manages brightbeam’s blog, New York School
Tanesha Peeples is the Deputy Director for Activist Development at brightbeam. This post forst appeared on Education Post, one of brightbeam’s national blogs.. Y’all know
Should New Jersey’s taxpayers—strained under one of the heaviest tax burdens in the country—be paying public school teachers not to teach? The New Jersey Supreme
This post, by Tim Evans, analyzes the relationship between school district fragmentation and the role it may play in fostering and maintaining a racially and
Jasmine Morrison is a parent activist in Newark with two sons in charter schools. For more coverage of her advocacy, see here, here, and here.
Julie Mower is Executive Director of The Phoenix Center, an accredited non-profit, private school that serves nearly 140 students ages 5-21 with autism, multiple disabilities,
Sarah Mulhern Gross is a National Board-certified English teacher at High Technology High School, a magnet school in Lincroft, New Jersey, and a graduate of
This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky who runs the Kentucky School Talk blog. He is a published author