April 16, 2021
Yesterday, a group of five high school students at Foundation Academies – a high-performing public charter school network in Trenton – were honored by the […]
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February 12, 2021
Essex County Superior Judge James Paganelli has just ruled in favor of the Montclair Education Association, which is challenging the Montclair Board of Education’s lawsuit […]
January 11, 2021
The 30,000 students in Jersey City’s public schools have not seen the inside of their schools since last March when schools first closed at the […]
September 23, 2020
This is the first in a series of three pieces on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to parochial and private schools. The second is […]
April 29, 2020
On Monday I wrote about Paterson Public Schools’ poor implementation of home instruction during this pandemic, hindered largely by the lack of one-on-one devices for […]
April 17, 2020
We’re about 5 weeks into our coronavirus lock-down in New Jersey, about a month since much of America has embarked on a national experiment of […]
March 30, 2020
I wrote last week about Princeton Regional Public Schools’ high expectations for students during this pandemic in comparison to the low expectations for students who […]
March 25, 2020
On Monday I looked at the stark disparities in the quality of online instruction offered to children during the COVID-19 school closures, comparing Princeton Regional […]
March 23, 2020
I live right off Route 206, a mostly two-lane road that begins in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey, winds 130 miles north to Stokes […]
November 27, 2019
Politico reports today that Elizabeth Warren’s support among Democratic and left-leaning Independent primary voters “plunged 50 percent over the past month, according to a new […]
January 15, 2019
Less than two weeks ago a local paper reported that Trenton public schools students feel unsafe and uneducated. At about the same time an appellate court […]
January 3, 2019
An article in Tuesday’s Trentonian recounts interviews with Trenton Central High School students, almost all Black, Hispanic, and poor, who are stuck in a district […]