December 15, 2017
In Wednesday’s NJ Spotlight, Mark Weber takes aim at two recent editorials, mine and Michele Mason’s, which cover different aspects of recent public school improvements in Newark, […]
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December 14, 2017
Does it seem odd to you that we’re celebrating the fact that half of New Jersey’s third-graders are at or above grade level in language […]
December 11, 2017
You know fake news is being normalized when an organization that flaunts its supposedly grassroots progressive pedigree engages in Trumpery. Okay, maybe that’s a little […]
December 7, 2017
Last week I wrote a post about a report on N.J.’s segregated schools by Professor Gary Orfield et. al. which I found vacuous and flawed, […]
December 5, 2017
I have a new column up at NJ Spotlight called “The Four Factors Behind Newark’s Education Turnaround.” It starts here: New Jersey is a fragmented […]
December 1, 2017
(This post is by Chris Minnich, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers, and originally appeared in Huffington Post.) I visit many schools across the […]
December 1, 2017
(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that teach young learners to express […]
November 30, 2017
The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a follow-up to a report on […]
November 27, 2017
(This is a guest post by Michael Lilley, former executive director of Better Education For NJ Kids (B4K) and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise […]
November 21, 2017
I’ve written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that the terrorist attack on 9/11 […]
November 16, 2017
School board members can get funny about money. When you’re dealing with multi-million dollar budgets, big expenses suddenly appear small potatoes. (I know. I was […]
November 13, 2017
Here’s part of Friday’s press release from the Newark-based organization Parent Coalition for Excellent Schools, or PC2E: Today the Parent Coalition for Excellent Education (PC2E) […]