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December 6, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 6, 2023

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Finally, State Education Department Publicly Discloses Student Test Results

Today, during the monthly public State Board of Education meeting, the New Jersey Department of Education released statewide student test scores from spring’s 2023 NJ […]

December 6, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 6, 2023

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Tip To Murphy: Stop Doing the Same Thing and Expecting a Different Result.

Tomorrow, Thursday, December 7th, the Senate Judiciary Committee will not interview Mary Bennett for a spot on the New Jersey State Board of Education. This […]

December 6, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 6, 2023

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Camden Education Fund Provides $10,000 for 2023 Black Men in Education Convening

Positive role models among teachers can have a positive impact on a student’s educational success, and the relationship is especially true for Black students who […]

December 5, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 5, 2023

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New Jersey Now Knows Its State Math Tests Are Accurate Reflections of Student Learning

For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, students in 81 industrialized countries that form the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) took a […]

December 5, 2023

By Laura Waters at December 5, 2023

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If Legislators Care About Equity They’ll Pass This Bill–and Murphy Will Sign It

Yesterday the New Jersey Assembly Appropriations Committee approved a bill, A4496, that would reform the Schools Development Authority, an agency that is responsible for constructing […]

December 5, 2023

By Guest Contributor at December 5, 2023

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Old Bridge Backs State on Transgender Student Policy

Fred Snowflack is a columnist at InsiderNJ where this was first published. The Old Bridge board of education is standing up for the rights of transgender […]

COMMUNITIES

July 28, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 28, 2023

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New Analysis: Post-COVID, New Jersey’s Achievement Gaps Have Become Gulfs

AssessmentHQ, a project from the Collaborative for Student Success, just released its most recent state-by-state database on how the COVID-19 school disruptions have affected student […]

July 26, 2023

By Contributor at July 26, 2023

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BARAKA: 10 Actions We Can Take To Get Students Back on Track

Ras Baraka is the mayor of the City of Newark. This first appeared on nj.com. We can learn a valuable lesson from the Maasai tribe […]

July 25, 2023

By Laura Waters at July 25, 2023

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Asbury Park Students Beat the Odds—When Given the Chance

College Achieve Greater Asbury Park (CAPS) is garnering accolades for student academic growth. An article in today’s Asbury Park Press (paywalled) notes that the charter […]

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 […]