Today the Star-Ledger Editorial Board reports that over this past eight months Newark school board members and top staffers have taken taxpayer-funded trips to Las
Who knew New Jersey was an educational trend-setter? Yesterday Jay Mathews at the Washington Post described how pandemic accommodations that eased school district attendance and
Last week I interviewed Mark Bonamo of Tapinto Newark and Newark activist Oscar James II. Bonamo, along with journalist Tom Wiedmann, broke the story–which became
Last year Kate Travers’ son had a wonderful experience in his South Orange-Maplewood School District (SOMA) kindergarten class. His inclusion classroom, team-taught by a general
Newark Superintendent Roger León lies to the public with impunity, a tic unrestrained by the district’s Board of Education which is charged with overseeing his
New Jersey residents may be surprised by the news, released Monday, that on the highly-regarded tests called the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP), students
If you’ve been following the news you already know that on Monday the National Assessment for Educational Progress (NAEP) released state scores from last Spring’s
Last week Tamar Herman, the South Orange-Maplewood teacher who was put on administrative leave last year for allegedly pulling off the hijab of one of
Yesterday we reported that New Jersey students, according to the highly-regarded NAEP tests, have suffered steeper drops in math and reading proficiency than the national
This morning the National Assessment for Educational Progress, or NAEP, published 2022 scores for each state. We knew Covid-19 learning loss was real based on