Today’s NJ Advance Media article (i.e., Star-Ledger) notes this July marks the 20th anniversary of state control of Newark. Over…
From today's NJ Spotlight:Chris Cerf, Christie’s former education commissioner and arguably the chief architect of his reform approach, says great…
"The vast majority of opt-outs are taking place in non-urban, non-disadvantaged districts,” agrees [NJEA Spokesman Steve] Wollmer, “because parents tend…
The new report from the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) is out from Stanford University and the results show…
One of the criticisms of charter schools is that they come into a neighborhood and supplant the traditional school, without…
Much of the analysis of the public education system in Newark feels unreliable; everyone, it seems, has an agenda. “New…
I’m trying to figure it out too. We know that eight students, members of the Newark Students Union, have been…
It starts here:Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in a PARCC simulation, a forty-five…
At this moment a small group of Newark Public School students have been “occupying” the district’s central office on Cedar…
The Brookings Institute just released its 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index and one of the star players is Newark…