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November 27, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 27, 2023

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EXCLUSIVE: First Peek at Last Spring’s Statewide Test Scores

On Friday news broke that Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan would be exiting the Department of Education in February. The news was dumped on Black […]

November 27, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 27, 2023

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Three Years After Landmark Donation, St. Benedict’s Prep Continues to Grow its Girls Division

It seems like a blink since Lucia Gallo was in eighth grade, sitting in the cafeteria at St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark. The topic […]

November 27, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 27, 2023

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SCOOP: Gov. Murphy and NJ Education Commissioner Confirm Her Resignation

Today the Murphy Administration and the New Jersey Department of Education confirmed that Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan will retire effective February 2024. NJER published the […]

November 24, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 24, 2023

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BREAKING: Murphy’s Education Commissioner Is Out in January

This afternoon, buried on Black Friday, news broke that Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan will leave in January. She has served in this position for […]

November 22, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 22, 2023

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Asbury Park Teachers Call Out ‘Brutalized’ Staff and Students’ Lack of Learning

Late yesterday members of the Asbury Park Education Association received this email from their teacher union leaders: “On behalf of the entire APEA membership, I […]

November 22, 2023

By Laura Waters at November 22, 2023

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News

The Robbinsville School District’s R.E.D. Program: Much More than Childcare

When Reina Albert – a seventh grader at Pond Road Middle School, was a pre-kindergartener attending the Robbinsville Extended Day (R.E.D.) program, she didn’t want […]

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

June 8, 2022

By Contributor at June 8, 2022

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Opinion

GOODMAN: High-Stakes Tests Don’t Help Students Learn. Why Don’t We Try This New Model Instead?

Ten years ago Robert Goodman, the Executive Director of the New Jersey Center for Teaching and Learning (NJCTL), wrote a paper exploring a new way […]

June 6, 2022

By Paula White at June 6, 2022

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WHITE: For Vanessa, And All Our Vanessas To Come

When bureaucratic shenanigans and red tape play Russian roulette with children’s lives, we all suffer. I was reminded of this by a recent LinkedIn inbox […]

June 3, 2022

By Laura Waters at June 3, 2022

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COMMENTARY: Murphy Treats Low-Income Families as Political Footballs As He Shuts Down Their Best Schools

Late yesterday Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan sent a letter to Newark’s University Heights Charter School that decreed, based on “subjective conclusions reported from one […]