It’s Time for An Intervention in Lakewood

Here's the aspiring interventionist, Deputy Assistant Education Commissioner Glenn Forney, doing the hard work of setting boundaries for the Lakewood Board…

8 years ago

Are the Project Veritas/NJEA Videos an Anomaly or the Canary in the Coal Mine?

Last week at the Statehouse in Trenton, New Jersey legislators moved far beyond the usual debates about our education system.…

8 years ago

Karp the PARCC-Slayer

Stan Karp, Director of of Secondary Reform for New Jersey’s Education Law Center, had an op-ed in NJ Spotlight on Friday…

8 years ago

Rumor Mill in Lakewood Heating Up in Advance of Tonight’s Board Meeting

The rumor mill in Lakewood is abuzz as the Board of Education gets ready for tonight's meeting. If anyone can…

8 years ago

Senior Signing Day at KIPP NJ! What’s Next For These Stellar Scholars?

One of the biggest decisions a high school senior will make is where to attend college, and KIPP NJ makes…

8 years ago

It Doesn’t Just Happen at Starbucks. Teachers Need Racial Bias Training Too.

Zachary Wright is the 12th-grade world literature and AP Literature teacher at Mastery Charter School Shoemaker Campus where he has been for the last eight…

8 years ago

Guest Post: Does the Murphy Administration “Have the Courage” to Take Over Lakewood Public Schools?

Michael Hoban was an educator for 48 years, teaching at the elementary, high school and university levels.  He was a…

8 years ago

Lakewood Board Member Resigns Because He is a “Man of Integrity”

This is a resignation letter from Lakewood Board of Education member Herbierto Rodriquez. More to come. Please let this letter…

8 years ago

My Sister Carla: A Personal Story About Mental Illness

I have an acute aversion to pretense. I think that’s why I react so strongly to charades like “New Jersey…

8 years ago

Five Take-Aways from Lakewood’s Most Recent School Board Meeting

As a public service, I just watched last week’s two and a half-hour meeting of the Lakewood School Board that,…

8 years ago