Math Instruction Archives - NJ Education Report
September 18, 2023

It’s Time to Drop ‘Sexy’ Practices and Start Talking About a Science of Math

By now we’ve all heard about the Science of Reading, the dawning understanding that children don’t absorb literacy through osmosis and context clues but need […]
April 5, 2023

Murphy Administration Chooses Optics Over Substance: Looking at DOE’s Climate Change Revisions

As we reported Monday, later this morning, Gov. Phil Murphy’s Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan will urge the State Board of Education to lower “cut scores” […]
January 5, 2023

New Jersey’s Largest Charter School Pilots Coding for Non-STEM Classes Thanks to Grant from U.S. Education Department

Who says coding is just for STEM classes? North Star Academy in Newark is embedding computational thinking – a broad skill set that includes coding […]
October 25, 2022

Murphy’s Education Department Is Holding Student Learning Data Hostage from Parents, Teachers, and Schools

Yesterday we reported that New Jersey students, according to the highly-regarded NAEP tests, have suffered steeper drops in math and reading proficiency than the national […]