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LATEST EDUCATION NEWS

February 1, 2024

By Laura Waters at February 1, 2024

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New: National Analysis Shows NJ’s COVID Learning Recovery—Sort Of.

A new national analysis from the Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford University and the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard. finds that although American […]

February 1, 2024

By Guest Contributor at February 1, 2024

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My Father Gave Me His Name. I Thought It Was a Curse But It Was a Blessing.

David Malakai Allen is a high school senior from Newark, New Jersey, with dreams of becoming a criminal defense attorney; he was the president of […]

February 1, 2024

By NJER Newsroom at February 1, 2024

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Press Release

NJEA Praises Murphy’s New Commissioner

Gov. Phil Murphy has nominated Kevin Dehmer to serve as New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education. NJEA’s officers, President Sean M. Spiller, Vice President Steve Beatty, […]

January 31, 2024

By Michael Lilley, Sunlight Policy Center at January 31, 2024

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LILLEY: NJEA President/Montclair Mayor Pleads the Fifth

The news out of Montclair puts a dark ethical cloud over Montclair Mayor/NJEA President Sean Spiller. According to the Montclair Local, in a deposition for whistleblower […]

January 31, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 31, 2024

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As Goes Lakewood, So Goes Jackson. Hat-Tip to Asbury Park.

Last year NJ Education Report predicted that, like Lakewood, other New Jersey school districts will face fiscal distress as the number of students attending Jewish […]

January 30, 2024

By Laura Waters at January 30, 2024

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Asbury Park Union President To Staff: Hang In There

This morning Asbury Park Education Association members received an email from APEA president John Napolitani (see below) that acknowledges staff frustration as the union continues […]

COMMUNITIES

September 26, 2023

By Guest Contributor at September 26, 2023

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MARTINEZ: What Getting Thrown Out of School Taught Me About Equity

Barbara Martinez is the new Executive Director of the New Jersey Children’s Foundation. This was first published in Mosaic. When I was 14 years old, […]

September 21, 2023

By Laura Waters at September 21, 2023

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A True Newark Hero Takes the Helm at NJCF (and a Personal Note)

A personal note on Barbara Martinez’s new position as Executive Director of New Jersey Children’s Foundation: I first met Martinez in 2017 when I spent […]

September 19, 2023

By Laura Waters at September 19, 2023

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Newark

Newark School Board President Abruptly Resigns

Last night Newark School Board president Asia Norton resigned, effective immediately. Having completed her degree at Rutgers Law School last spring, she is taking a […]

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 […]