achievement gap

New Newsworks Post: What’s up with ACLU’s Fight Against Racial Disparities in South Orange-Maplewood?

It starts here:The American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey and the Civil Rights Project (CRP) at UCLA have filed…

10 years ago

From Abbott to Vergara: Irony in Camden

This week I had a column in NJ Spotlight about  the upcoming anniversary of the Abbott v. Burke cases, specifically…

10 years ago

New Jersey on Post-Vergara List, says Michelle Rhee

NPR interviewed Michelle Rhee, CEO  of StudentsFirst and former Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools. Here's a bit of  the Q…

10 years ago

QOD: The Irony of the Civil Rights Complaint against Newark Public Schools

The Star Ledger Editorial Board on the "bogus" civil rights complaint filed against Newark Public Schools alleging racial discrimination:Where was…

10 years ago

Newark’s Misdirected Civil Rights Complaint

Both NJ Spotlight and the Star-Ledger have stories today on the federal investigation of a civil rights complaint filed by…

10 years ago

Why Do Asian-American Students Have an Academic Advantage over White Students?

Here's the abstract from a new paper published through the National Academy of Sciences:The superior academic achievement of Asian Americans…

10 years ago

Trenton’s Next Mayor and the City’s Schools

I covered Saturday's mayoral forum for WHYY Newsworks: At the mayoral forum Saturday morning "Setting Trenton's Education Agenda," sponsored by…

11 years ago

Jim Crow in South Orange-Maplewood?

Walter Fields, former political director of the NJ NAACP and leader of a new black parents’ group in South Orange-Maplewood…

11 years ago

New Report Analyzes National and NJ-specific Achievement Gaps

The Annie E. Casey Foundation just  released a new report called “Race for Results,” which intends to  "bring a fresh…

11 years ago

New Spotlight Column: Cerf’s Decision to Leave NJ Commish Slot for Private Enterprise

Hot off the press, today's column at NJ Spotlight: Someone ought to give Chris Cerf a flak suit as he…

11 years ago