July 20, 2022
South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District (SOMA) is known for its fine schools with students performing well above state averages. Like Montclair, also in Essex County, […]
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July 13, 2022
The ramifications of this pandemic will take years to unpack but here’s one thing we know for sure: support for school choice—particularly vouchers and expansion […]
July 11, 2022
Hindsight is golden but here’s what we know: School closures and remote instruction during the 2020-2021 school year were academic and emotional disasters for most […]
June 29, 2022
Who is left holding the bag? Black and Latino families who get ripped out of the schools that they love. That’s Harry Lee, Executive Director […]
June 14, 2022
At a Goldman Sachs conference in April of 2017, a month before Phil Murphy declared his candidacy for New Jersey governor, a former governor’s wife […]
June 3, 2022
Late yesterday Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan sent a letter to Newark’s University Heights Charter School that decreed, based on “subjective conclusions reported from one […]
May 25, 2022
The new Rutgers paper, “Digital Divide, Critical and Crisis-Informatics Perspectives on K-12 Emergency Remote Teaching During the Pandemic,” is a valuable (if jargony) overview of […]
May 18, 2022
In June 1972, the New Jersey Department of Education issued a report called “Teachers’ Strikes in Newark, 1964-1971.” The document includes a timeline that details […]
May 10, 2022
More than half of Americans do not trust the federal government and don’t think it helps people like them, says a new survey from Partnership […]
April 20, 2022
Yesterday the New Jersey Monitor had a fine piece on the Garden State’s long struggle to integrate schools, currently the subject of a lawsuit. One […]
April 12, 2022
Let’s start with a history lesson: in 1882, before computers, software engineering, and artificial intelligence were even a glint in the nation’s eye, a group […]
April 6, 2022
Last week news broke that 98% of Newark fourth-graders are not expected to meet state expectations in math this spring. This alarming projection didn’t come […]