October 12, 2023
Riley Gartland, a math teacher at Cinnaminson High School, was surprised at a schoolwide assembly in front of cheering students, colleagues, dignitaries and the media today when […]
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October 3, 2023
Yesterday at Asbury Park’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Middle School, every teacher wore black. They were protesting—and mourning—the decision, either by principal Perry Medina or […]
September 18, 2023
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 […]
July 25, 2023
College Achieve Greater Asbury Park (CAPS) is garnering accolades for student academic growth. An article in today’s Asbury Park Press (paywalled) notes that the charter […]
April 5, 2023
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
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 27, 2022
New Jersey residents may be surprised by the news, released Monday, that on the highly-regarded tests called the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), students […]
October 25, 2022
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 […]
September 29, 2022
Those of us who follow education improvement efforts in America have heard all about the “science of literacy” and the desperate need for teachers trained […]
September 6, 2022
Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her at www.lauramckenna.com. This was originally published at her newsletter, Apt. 11D. Last […]
July 20, 2022
About 58% of the students we looked at in K-8 are about 1 to 3 years behind in reading. About 68% of students are 1 […]
June 10, 2022
This is a letter from six parents of Princeton Regional Public Schools District students protesting changes in the standards and sequence of math courses in […]