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September 4, 2015
From Mike Vaughn’s brand-new blog, “Great Equalizer“: I know that there are more factors that shape a kid’s life than school. Family matters. Money matters. […]
September 3, 2015
Speaking of Newark, earlier this week the New York Times ran a front-page feature on Mayor Ras Baraka that celebrates him as a practical and […]
September 3, 2015
Newark students started school today in an atmosphere that appears to be a marked contrast to the agitation and unrest last year. The Record reports […]
September 2, 2015
Kayla Patrick explains how we err in placing the goalpost for poor minority students at the current academic achievement level of white, middle-class students: Is […]
September 2, 2015
So, how’s it going at Camden Public Schools, where three new renaissance schools – hybrid district/charter schools run by non-profit operators KIPP, Mastery, and Uncommon […]
September 2, 2015
The Newark School Advisory Board, reports the Star-Ledger, has a reasonable request: the state Department of Education should turn around district accountability evaluations, at least […]