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N.J.’s Top Ten High Schools: 7 Magnets, 2 Traditional, 1 Charter

U.S. News and World Report issued their high school rankings this week and, as usual, most of New Jersey’s top…

10 years ago

Taking Pot Shots at N.J.’s Charter School Students

"The charter school law needs to be rewritten in a thoughtful, comprehensive way. It's been more than 20 years since…

10 years ago

QOD: Camden Charter School Teacher on Parent Partnerships and the Joy of Learning

Joelle Quick, a kindergarten teacher at Hope Community Charter SchooLIt’s a happy feeling inside.  Every day I wake up and…

10 years ago

Interdistrict Public School Choice Leader Offers a Funding Solution

Bob Garguilo, chairman of the New Jersey Interdistrict Public School Choice Association, has an excellent editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight…

10 years ago

Jersey City Charter School Teacher: I’m an “equal partner” and “empowered by school leadership”

Jomayra I. Torres, a first grade teacher at a Jersey City charter school and mother of a charter school student,…

10 years ago

Montclair Teacher Scheduled AP Review Session During PARCC Test; Parent Fights Back

Montclair Public Schools has one of the highest PARCC opt-out rates in the state and it appears that  the boycott…

10 years ago

Addendum

Yesterday I responded to an editorial in NJ Spotlight by high school teacher Walter Bowne. Mr. Bowne argued that the…

10 years ago

In Diegnan’s Anti-PARCC bills, Poor Children are just Collateral Damage

Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee,  has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…

10 years ago

Correction

My column yesterday at Newsworks WHYY contains an error. I said, "Things are so bad that a moronic charter school…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Christie’s Toast But He Can Still Advance Education Initiatives

Let’s make it official: Chris Christie is toast. As our defamed and diminished governor lurches back towards Jersey, his only…

10 years ago