September 29, 2021
Last week, by a vote of 6-3, the Bridgewater-Raritan School Board approved a resolution telling Gov. Phil Murphy to have the state Department of Education […]
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September 15, 2021
Seven months ago, before the Delta variant of COVID-19 reversed hard-won decreases in disease transmission, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a mandate that “all students will […]
August 18, 2021
Two months ago, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement, “Schools have shown that they can – and should – be offering in-person […]
August 16, 2021
New Jersey school district leaders and parents are expressing increasing frustration with the lack of concrete guidance from the state Department of Education for reopening […]
December 4, 2020
This post is by my brightbeam colleague Garris Landon Stroud, a teacher from Greenville, Kentucky who runs the Kentucky School Talk blog. He is a published author […]
October 20, 2020
As reported by Chalkbeat yesterday: The Newark school system is preparing for students to return to classrooms part time beginning next month, though a final […]
October 19, 2020
The Center for Reinventing Public Education’s Executive Director Robin Lake and Research Analyst Lanya McKittrick wrote this analysis, which first appeared here. When districts closed […]
July 30, 2020
It’s not a secret how all this should work. When anticipating prolonged school closures, states need to set clear expectations for the quality of learning […]
July 17, 2020
Earlier this month, Margrady Research released a study called “Resilience: Will Urban Schools that Beat the Odds Continue to Do So During the COVID-19 Pandemic?” […]
June 17, 2020
In 1997 Michael Kinsley wrote, “the scandal isn’t the illegal behavior–the scandal is what’s legal.” He was referring to allegations about fund-raising corruption in the […]
April 13, 2020
Ten-year-old Gavin Williams is a lively and affectionate youngster who loves to visit museums, experiment with computer-coding and plunge into ocean waves with his boogie-board. […]
March 30, 2020
I wrote last week about Princeton Regional Public Schools’ high expectations for students during this pandemic in comparison to the low expectations for students who […]