in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled "Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform":Newark's inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately…
Sometimes it seems like the positions of education “reformers” and education status quo proponents grow more entrenched each year. Certainly,…
Last week a report was issued by the Institute of Law and Policy at Rutgers-Newark and the Civil Rights Project…
A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and…
David Leonhardt of the New York Times interviews U.S. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, and former…
My column today at NJ Spotlight looks at the NJ's implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the attendant…
Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a…
Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter…
The big NJ education story today is the release of graduation statistics from the DOE. Coverage from NJ Spotlight (which…
Earlier this month Jersey City Education Association President Ron Greco refused to sign off on the district’s $40 million Race…