in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled “Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform”: Newark’s inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately African American, contain some
Sometimes it seems like the positions of education “reformers” and education status quo proponents grow more entrenched each year. Certainly, the backlash against Common Core
Last week a report was issued by the Institute of Law and Policy at Rutgers-Newark and the Civil Rights Project at University of California, Los
A new Rutgers University report on so-called apartheid schools in New Jersey says that 26 percent of black students and 13 percent of Latino students
David Leonhardt of the New York Times interviews U.S. Ed. Sec. Arne Duncan, former Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels, and former Michigan Governor John Engler: Leonhardt:
My column today at NJ Spotlight looks at the NJ’s implementation of the Common Core State Standards and the attendant student tests. Here’s a truism:
Today’s business section of the New York Times features an article about top US economist James Heckman, who has a Nobel Prize on his resume.
Two weeks ago the big New Jersey education story was the CREDO report, which surveyed student outcomes in NJ’s charter schools and found that, while
The big NJ education story today is the release of graduation statistics from the DOE. Coverage from NJ Spotlight (which links to all the data),
Earlier this month Jersey City Education Association President Ron Greco refused to sign off on the district’s $40 million Race to the Top application (see