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LATEST EDUCATION NEWS

December 7, 2023

By Guest Contributor at December 7, 2023

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Newark

Lawyers Take Home $2.4 Million in Efforts to Regain Newark School Buildings Sold For $1.8 Million

Matt Kadosh first published this at TapintoNewark. The legal costs of the Newark School Board’s efforts to reacquire two buildings sold by the previous administration […]

December 7, 2023

By NJER Newsroom at December 7, 2023

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News

Assemblywoman Angela McKnight Calls on DOE to Not Cut Childcare Providers’ Pay

Assemblywoman Angela McKnight (D-Hudson County) is tirelessly fighting to have the New Jersey Department of Education (DOE) rescind their directive to stop paying childcare providers […]

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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News

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
News

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 […]

COMMUNITIES

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]