achievement gap

New Jersey has “Massive Achievement Gap” While New York’s is Only “Large,” via EEI Index

Education Cities and Great Schools have created a new tool that quantifies trends in achievement gaps in each state and…

9 years ago

Why is Jersey Jazzman Despondent Because Uncommon Schools is Providing Low-Income Kids of Color with Academic Success?

Leave it to Jersey Jazzman, a.k.a., Mark Weber, to take offense -- and then become offensive -- after reading someone…

9 years ago

Parent Threatens to Sue N.J. over PARCC Testing: Can We All Get a Grip?

"I will sue New Jersey Department of Education," said Veronica Mehno, a parent from West Windsor. "I will sue them…

9 years ago

What’s Should a High School Diploma Be Worth? N.J. Apologists and Anti-PARCC-ers Say “Not Much”

In today’s NJ Spotlight, Mark Weber, ally of NJEA, Save Our Schools-NJ, Education Law Center, and doctoral student of Bruce…

9 years ago

Anti-Testing Movement Privileges Rich Students over Poor Students

It’s like New Jersey is two separate countries, at least as I read my local papers yesterday. In the Trenton…

9 years ago

Trenton Public Schools Administrators Crow at Graduation Rates; Meanwhile, 0% of Students Are Proficient in Algebra II

What’s a high school diploma worth?That question underlies much of the current disputes about higher standards for schoolchildren.Historically we’ve flung…

9 years ago

Getting Past False Dichotomies: Newark Public Schoolchildren are “Beating the Odds”

Political discussions are often infected with false dichotomies, and the pros and cons of charter schools are not immune from…

9 years ago

Re: Educational Equity, Carmen Farina and Bill De Blasio Prefer Bedtime Stories to Doing “What Actually Works”

On Monday at a press conference, NYC Schools Chancellor Carmen Farina was asked about the De Blasio Administration’s lackluster efforts…

9 years ago

NY and NJ NAEP Scores: “Don’t Panic”

There are two articles out today, one from the Fran Stancavage and George Bohrnstedt at the American Institute for Research…

9 years ago

New Assessment Results Prove Our Schools Need to Change, So What’s Next?

Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called "The Emperor's New Clothes," we’re all agape as results on…

9 years ago