achievement gap

Newark Sup. Cami Anderson Speaks Out

in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled "Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform":Newark's inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately…

11 years ago

An Education Reformer and an “Old School” Proponent Find Common Ground

Sometimes it seems like the positions of education “reformers” and education status quo proponents grow more entrenched each year.  Certainly,…

11 years ago

Is New Jersey the School “Apartheid” State?

Last week a report was issued by the Institute of Law and Policy at Rutgers-Newark and the Civil Rights Project…

11 years ago

QOD: New Rutgers’ Study Compares NJ Black Students’ Segregation to Apartheid

A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and…

11 years ago

QOD: Arne Duncan on what the education reformers got wrong

David Leonhardt of the New York Times interviews U.S. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, and former…

11 years ago

New Jersey and the Common Core

My column today at NJ Spotlight looks at the NJ's implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the attendant…

11 years ago

How Important is Preschool? Economist Says Kindergarten is Too Late

Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a…

12 years ago

Via Newark Public Schools: a “data-driven, frank discussion”

Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter…

12 years ago

New Data on New Jersey’s Graduation Rate

The big NJ education story today is the release of graduation statistics from the DOE. Coverage from NJ Spotlight (which…

12 years ago

Jersey City Parent Responds to Union Prez’s Veto of Grant and Diane Ravitch’s Enconium

Earlier this month Jersey City Education Association President Ron Greco refused to sign off on the district’s $40 million Race…

12 years ago