Newark Update

I have a new column up at NJ Spotlight called "The Four Factors Behind Newark's Education Turnaround buy topamax online…

9 years ago

Beverly City Schools Makes “Incredible Progress” By Using Data to Focus on Kids

(This post is by Chris Minnich, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers, and originally appeared in Huffington Post.) I…

9 years ago

How Do We Foster Integration and Inclusion in New Jersey?

(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that…

9 years ago

Confessions from A Recovering Academic; Or, The Problems with Proffered Solutions To N.J.’s Segregated Schools (with apologies to Emily Dickinson)

The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a…

9 years ago

New Jersey’s Pension Crisis is Largely the Fault of NJEA Leaders: Here’s Why.

(This is a guest post by Michael Lilley,  former executive director of Better Education For NJ Kids (B4K) and an adjunct…

9 years ago

“For the Camden Teachers’ Union, It’s Politics as Usual”: A Response to an Attack on Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard

I’ve written about  Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that…

9 years ago

Talk About Chutzpah: Lakewood Board Hires a Lawyer to Defend Its Profligate Hire of Inzelbuch

School board members can get funny about money. When you’re dealing with multi-million dollar budgets, big expenses suddenly appear small…

9 years ago

The Soprano State, Muhammed Akil, and PC2E: A Jersey Story

Here’s part of Friday's press release from the Newark-based organization Parent Coalition for Excellent Schools, or PC2E: Today the Parent…

9 years ago

The Votes Are In: New Jersey’s Teachers Union Really Blew It

The leaders of New Jersey’s primary teachers union, the New Jersey Education Association (NJEA), have egg on their faces. In…

9 years ago

The Lakewood Vaad Says, “Vote For Murphy, He’s a Mensch”

To no one’s surprise, the Lakewood Vaad, a group of eleven ultra-Orthodox men who control all educational, political, budgetary, and…

9 years ago