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Five Tips to Help Children With Special Needs Through the Holidays

Julie Mower is Executive Director of The Phoenix Center, an accredited non-profit, private school that serves nearly 140 students ages…

4 years ago

Half-Truths: A Look Inside New Jersey’s Schools During a Pandemic

Sarah Mulhern Gross is a National Board-certified English teacher at High Technology High School, a magnet school in Lincroft, New…

4 years ago

Breaking: NJ Legislature Prepares to Act on Bill to Help Kids, Despite Inaction From DOE and Opposition From Lobbyists

Last week the New Jersey State Senator passed a bill, S-3214,  mandating  that Acting Commissioner Angelica Allen-McMillen “require each school…

4 years ago

NJ Education Department Leak Shows Lack of Support for Staff Under New Commissioner

This following note was sent to NJ Left Behind by a New Jersey Department of Education staff member who wishes…

4 years ago

Two Problems With Learning Loss Grants Trumpeted by Murphy and NJ Education Department

Yesterday Governor Phil Murphy's office and the New Jersey Department of Education made a joint announcement with great fanfare: They…

4 years ago

School Superintendents: Parents Are Endangering Schools By Not Saying "No" to Children

Morris School District Superintendent Mackey Pendergast is not happy with parents, according to a notice he posted yesterday. Why? Some…

4 years ago

It's Every Student Succeeds Act’s Fifth Anniversary But There's Nothing to Celebrate

Five years ago TikTok, the video-sharing social networking platform, didn’t even exist. Today, the New York Times reports that over one-third of…

4 years ago

Senate Education Committee Demands a "Reckoning With Truth," Despite Pleas From NJEA

After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard…

4 years ago

Why Should the State Ed. Dept. Have to Collect Data on Student Learning Loss? Here’s Why.

This is testimony from JerseyCAN Executive Director Patricia Morgan, given yesterday at the Senate Education Committee's hearing on Bill S3214.…

4 years ago

There Will Always Be a Lakewood

Well, that didn't go well. Right before last week's Thanksgiving break, all Lakewood staff members received a letter from Superintendent…

4 years ago