Murphy Gets High Grades for Managing COVID Contagion So Why Is He Flunking COVID Schooling?

We as a state, for whatever reason, erred on the side of less guidance for schools when more guidance was…

6 years ago

Newsflash: Newark Voters Want More High-Quality Public Schools, Charter or Traditional.

This morning Change Research and the New Jersey Children’s Foundation released a poll that shows Newark’s public charter schools are…

6 years ago

New Report From School Boards Association: It’s Time for the State Education Department to Do Its Job.

Today the New Jersey School Boards Association released the third in a series of reports on how the coronavirus is…

6 years ago

Just How Safe Is Your Child’s School Bus?

Did you know that this is National School Bus Safety Week? To give this important week its full due, here…

6 years ago

Oops, Balanced Literacy Doesn’t Work Like We’ve Said It Did for Half a Century. Our Bad.

“Pouring over the work of contemporary reading researchers has led us to believe that aspects of balanced literacy need some…

6 years ago

What’s Everyone Saying About Murphy’s Pick For Education Commissioner?

Many media outlets have reports today on Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Angelica Allen-McMillan for Education Commissioner, five months after…

6 years ago

Khaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress

One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a…

6 years ago

Experts Confirm Newark Is Another Victim of NJ’s Terrible Plan for School Reopenings

As reported by Chalkbeat yesterday: The Newark school system is preparing for students to return to classrooms part time beginning…

6 years ago

The COVID Pandemic Has Not Changed Some Things: More Shoddy Research From Jersey Jazzman and NJ Policy Perspective

Mark Weber, Ph.D. (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman), has published an op-ed in NJSpotlight (based on a report he did for New Jersey Policy…

6 years ago

Montclair Students With Autism Started in-Person School on Friday. One Glitch: Teachers Didn’t Show Up.

This past Friday, 30 Montclair Public School District students arrived at school for their first day of live instruction. These…

6 years ago