achievement gap

In Camden, Community Members Engage in “Honest Talk” about “Hard Choices”

On Tuesday night in Camden, a standing room-only crowd of parents, grandparents, students and alumni of Camden Public Schools met…

10 years ago

Just How “Grassroots” is the Opt-Out Movement in New Jersey?

Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Contrary to Recent Reports, Camden Isn’t Using a “Graduation Loophole”

It starts here:On Monday the Courier-Post asserted that Camden Public Schools conceals an “eye-popping” and “unique” percentage of high school…

10 years ago

QOD: Annual Standardized Testing and Doctor’s Visits: Doing Right by Kids

Speaking of annual standardized testing, Derrell Bradford, Executive Director NYCAN,  describes the bad old days when "states had testing regimens…

10 years ago

Civil Rights Leaders Plead with Congress to Maintain Annual Standardized Testing

In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of…

10 years ago

QOD: Annual Standardized Testing is a “Moral Imperative”

Today the Washington Post Editorial Board says that the “civil rights achievement” of NCLB, and pending Congressional negotiations over its reauthorization…

10 years ago

The Anti-Testing Movement and Global-Warming Deniers

Ann Hyslop of Bellwether is just the smartest person in the room on the dangers of the growing resistance towards…

10 years ago

The Odds Against Students in Newark, Camden, and Trenton

Ross Danis, president and CEO of the Newark Trust for Education, considers the high odds against academic success for New Jersey…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: A Local NJEA Unit’s Distorted Attacks on PARCC Testing

It starts here:Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a "massive position statement" detailing…

10 years ago

Philly School Advocacy Partners on Schools that Work and Those that Don’t

Public education advocates in New Jersey, from Derrell Bradford to Paul Tractenberg (bet you never thought you’d see those two…

10 years ago