February 20, 2015
It starts here: Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in a PARCC simulation, a forty-five minute dress rehearsal for […]
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February 18, 2015
At this moment a small group of Newark Public School students have been “occupying” the district’s central office on Cedar Street since about 8:30 last […]
February 4, 2015
The Brookings Institute just released its 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index and one of the star players is Newark Public Schools. The premise of […]
February 2, 2015
Shayvonne Anderson , a Newark mother of ten children who range in age from five to eighteen, explains in the Star-Ledger today why she sends […]
January 27, 2015
My new Spotlight column is out today. It starts here: News from Newark Public Schools is alarming. Earlier this month state legislators who sit on […]
December 22, 2014
It starts here: New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance towards new accountability metrics, […]
November 24, 2014
It starts here: Cami Anderson may not win anyone’s Superintendent of the Year award, but you’ve got to give her credit for a candid admission […]
November 17, 2014
KIPP NJ currently has one public charter high school: Newark Collegiate Academy. And that one school, which had just over 100 total graduates last year, […]
November 14, 2014
The Washington Post reports on yesterday’s events at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank. Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson was scheduled to deliver remarks […]
November 13, 2014
It starts here: The statistics are grim in Camden City Schools: according to just-released state data, only 21 percent of children in grades 3-8 can […]
October 31, 2014
This week Mark Weber and Julia Sass Rubin published a “data-driven” analysis of New Jersey’s charter schools. The report, paid for by a Rutgers grant […]
September 26, 2014
It starts here: Charter school opponents were in mourning this week after they failed to derail a set of amendments to a 2012 bill called […]