December 11, 2020
Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy’s office and the New Jersey Department of Education made a joint announcement with great fanfare: They have created “Addressing Student Learning […]
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December 8, 2020
After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard evidence now shows they were […]
December 8, 2020
This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee’s hearing on Bill S3214. The bill mandates that Commissioner […]
December 7, 2020
Heads-up to those who think measuring New Jersey students’ learning loss is critical if we are to provide for the needs of students who have […]
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 […]
December 3, 2020
(This post first appeared in Newark Neighborhood View.) As you know from my previous blog posts, my daughter attends West Side High School. Over the […]
December 2, 2020
For the last three years students, parents, teachers, and schools have been effectively abandoned by the New Jersey Department of Education. The mismanagement by former […]
November 19, 2020
Following the Department of Education’s announcement on statewide assessments and the issuing of the New Jersey Children’s Foundation report on remote education, Senate Education Chair […]
November 11, 2020
When I was seven months pregnant with my first baby I developed a condition called preeclampsia. It can be quite serious—once it was a leading […]
November 6, 2020
Every year I voice my disgust at the unnecessary closure of schools two days in November for the New Jersey Education Association’s annual convention. NJEA […]
November 4, 2020
Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us assumed this was a short-term […]
October 23, 2020
Today the New Jersey School Boards Association released the third in a series of reports on how the coronavirus is changing education in New Jersey. […]