Camden

Richard Buery, former New York City Deputy Mayor, Moves to KIPP

KIPP, the highly-regarded charter school network with 209 schools across the country serving 90,000 students, announced today the appointment of Richard…

7 years ago

Does a New Jersey High School Diploma Signify Anything At All?

Here's the start of my new column at NJ Spotlight Last month, New Jersey's new acting Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet…

7 years ago

The “Virtuous Circle” in Camden: Positive Progress Yields Community Support

Bryan Morton, Executive Director of Great Camden Schools, has an op-ed in the Courier Post that traces the arc of…

7 years ago

Charter Schools Closing in on State Averages on Third Year of PARCC Testing: Newark Charters Outperform State Average in Math

New Jersey charter schools continue to narrow the achievement gap on the third year of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness…

7 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…

7 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…

7 years ago

This Mother Feels “Blessed” To Have Her Children in a N.J. Charter School: a New Report Tells Us Why

Last week wrote about the New Jersey Charter School Association's new analysis, “20 Years of New Jersey Charter Schools: A…

7 years ago

Five Maxims for Phil Murphy

At a town hall in Montclair this past weekend, Phil Murphy held forth on the four New Jersey school districts…

7 years ago

President of Camden Education Association Goes Off the Rails

What's this? On the 16th anniversary of the September 11th  attacks, Keith Benson, the newly elected president of one of NJ's…

7 years ago

A Skeptic Turns Supporter: Community Leader Angel Cordero is Now Camden Supe’s Biggest Fan

Check out community leader Angel Cordero's take on the last few years of progress in Camden schools! Cordero, a leader…

7 years ago