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December 14, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 14, 2023

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Report Card Grades Instead of Assessments? NJ Legislature Is Losing the Plot.

Everyone loves to hate the NJGPA, the state standardized test that 11th-graders can take as one of multiple pathway to a high school diploma. There […]

December 14, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 14, 2023

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News

‘Even LeBron James Has a Coach.’ White Testifies Against a Bill That Would Diminish Teacher Evaluations

Ed. Note: This is the planned testimony that Paula White, Executive Director of JerseyCAN, will give at Thursday’s New Jersey Assembly’s Education Committee hearing. White will be voicing opposition […]

December 13, 2023

By Guest Contributor at December 13, 2023

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News
Opinion

What Is Technology’s Essential Role in the Classroom?

Joel Kupperstein is Senior Vice President of Product Strategy, Learning A-Z. All teachers have a toolbox of strategies to help with classroom management, crafting differentiated […]

December 13, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 13, 2023

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BREAKING: Murphy Will Try To Push Through Six New State Board of Education Members During Lame Duck Session

Gov. Phil Murphy is trying to replace six current members of the State Board of Education, possibly as soon as Monday, although the Senate Judiciary […]

December 13, 2023

By Guest Contributor at December 13, 2023

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News

SPILLER: Why Murphy Should Get Rid of Current State Board of Education Members

Sean Spiller is president of the New Jersey Education Association and Mayor of Montclair. The views expressed here are his own. This was first published […]

December 12, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 12, 2023

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An Advanced Physics Degree Changes Everything for This Jersey City Teacher

Middle School Teacher Jersey City teacher Sarah Brown says that earning her master’s degree in teaching physics from the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning […]

COMMUNITIES

August 3, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 3, 2023

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Finally, Lakewood Has a Real School Board Race

It wasn’t so long ago that school board elections in Lakewood were a non-event: the Vaad, eleven ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who control city politics, chose […]

August 1, 2023

By Laura Waters at August 1, 2023

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Newark
News

Newark Leaders Struggle to Retain Black Teachers Who Report Racial Harassment And Indifference

According to John Abeigon, president of the Newark Teachers Union, while Superintendent Roger Leon and his administration team seem to recognize that student success is […]

July 31, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 31, 2023

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Only In Asbury Park Is Nepotism a Win for Students

According to inside sources at Asbury Park schools, the Administration, with complicity of the majority of the school board, is once again engaging in nepotism. […]

OPINION

May 25, 2022

By Laura Waters at May 25, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Yes, Murphy’s DOE Flunked Remote Learning But Let’s Not Get Carried Away

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 20, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at May 20, 2022

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LILLEY: NJ Is #1–At Least In School Closings and Remote Instruction

While the NJEA wants to claim that learning loss did not really occur, a new study by Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research sheds some much-needed light on […]

May 18, 2022

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at May 18, 2022

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LILLEY: Deb Cornavaca, the NJEA, and Gov. Murphy Are One Revolving Door of Special-Interest Influence

Well, well, well, as night follows day, a NJEA political organizer cycles into the Murphy administration as a senior officer and then cycles right back […]