Erica Fortenberry, a seventeen-year veteran traditional Newark school educator, teaches in a school that “works on behalf of its students” but, she notes, “that is […]

On Wednesday, working my way back to Central Jersey from the annual convention of the Education Writers Association, I boarded an Amtrak in Boston to […]

And I’ve got a bridge I can sell you. Just as well: the Common Core was fine to begin with.  From today’s Star-Ledger: Nearly a […]

To our fellow New Yorkers: As the statewide English Language Arts and Math assessments for grades 3 through 8 wrap up, it’s important to remember […]

Last week Mayor Baraka issued a statement on Newark Public Schools’ $72 million budget gap, bemoaning the fact that the deficit will raise local property […]

Nina Rees in the Wall Street Journal on “the union war on charter school philanthropists”: Charter schools are also closing achievement gaps. At Success Academy schools […]