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Chris Cerf was Superintendent of Newark Public Schools and New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education. In the latter roll he oversaw 2,500 public schools, 1.4 million […]
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November 14, 2023
A study out today by by Paul E. Peterson and M. Danish Shakeel of Harvard University compares charter school student achievement in 35 states and […]
November 2, 2023
A new analysis from the University of Arkansas called “Still a Good Investment: Charter School Productivity in Nine Cities,” compares the amount spent per pupil […]
July 28, 2023
AssessmentHQ, a project from the Collaborative for Student Success, just released its most recent state-by-state database on how the COVID-19 school disruptions have affected student […]
June 21, 2023
A new report is out today from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) and everyone is talking about the dismal results. In short, 13-year-old […]
June 21, 2023
We have two disturbing pieces of news about learning loss for NJ students. First, a new update on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as […]
January 3, 2023
At long last, and only after a great deal of public outcry, Gov. Murphy’s Department of Education finally released the full dataset from last spring’s […]
December 13, 2022
New Jersey State Senator Michael Testa Jr. serves New Jersey’s 1st Legislative District – all of Cape May County and parts of Atlantic and Cumberland […]
December 8, 2022
Local news media is chock-full of reports on yesterday’s long-delayed release from the Murphy Administration’s Department of Education of last spring’s test results. The only […]
December 7, 2022
Today Acting Education Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillan and her team will unveil student levels of proficiency as gauged by last spring’s NJ Student Learning Assessments (NJSLA). […]
December 6, 2022
This is an editorial from the Star-Ledger Editorial Board. Although New Jersey is at the top of national rankings for its schools, we can’t afford […]
December 5, 2022
On Wednesday at 10am, the New Jersey Department of Education will finally share results with the State Board (and the public, who can join here) […]