January 7, 2019
The New Jersey Globe recently published its annual “Year in Review,” a listing of Garden State political winners and losers, as well as a set […]
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January 3, 2019
An article in Tuesday’s Trentonian recounts interviews with Trenton Central High School students, almost all Black, Hispanic, and poor, who are stuck in a district […]
December 13, 2018
I have the lead piece in The 74 today on how two veteran New Jersey teachers are trying to resign from the state’s teacher union, […]
November 28, 2018
Earlier this month I wondered whether the decay within the New Jersey Department of Education’s Division of Student Services (hostile work environment, retaliatory actions, talks […]
October 17, 2018
On October 12, last Friday, Assistant Education Commissioner Linda Eno sent a letter to all “Chief School Administrators, Charter School and Renaissance School Project Leads,” copied […]
October 3, 2018
The New Jersey Board of Education and Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet have reached a compromise on PARCC testing. (See here for the contentious background.) Repollet […]
September 28, 2018
Camden Prep, part of the Uncommon Schools network, first opened on Mt. Ephraim Avenue in 2014 through the Urban Hope Act, which authorized “renaissance schools,” […]
September 20, 2018
Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet presented a proposal to the State Board of Education to reduce the end-of-course (EOC) state tests administered […]
September 17, 2018
Context: Today members of the Legislature, led by Assembly Education Committee Chair Pamela Lampitt and Senator Education Chair Teresa Ruiz (both Democrats), asked smart questions […]
September 13, 2018
“Amen,” said Senator Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex), who chairs the Senate Education Committee. “I think this gives us an opportunity to come up with the best […]
September 7, 2018
Scott Taylor, the superintendent of the Highland Park school district, has an op-ed in today’s NJ Spotlight that argues that the New Jersey State Board […]
August 23, 2018
Don’t blame that inconsistency on journalist Adam Clark: typically writers have no control over headlines. Nonetheless, he’s stuck with the problem that his article on New […]