Black Students

Wake Up For Wednesday’s State Board of Education Meeting: Test Scores and Gender Identity

On Wednesday at 10am, the New Jersey Department of Education will finally share results with the State Board (and the…

2 years ago

Students, Youth Leaders to Host a March to Demand More School and Mental Health Resources, Less Policing

Students will march  to demand more counselors, more transparency in school policies, and restorative practices that include the voices of…

2 years ago

New Jersey Is Failing Its Black Fourth-Graders: A Closer Look at New National Test Scores

Matthew Ladner, Executive Editor of ReimaginED kindly prepared the graph below for NJ Ed Report readers based on national test…

2 years ago

Black Men Read Day at Newark’s Camden Elementary School!

My Very Own Library (MVOL) kicked off its Black Men Read Day at Camden Elementary School on October 20, 2022.…

2 years ago

Legislative Black and Latino Caucuses Condemn Murphy’s Plan to Eliminate School-Based Youth Services Programs

The New Jersey Legislature’s Joint Committee on the Public Schools, statutorily empowered with oversight of its public schools, convened a…

2 years ago

JAMES: The New Pandemic In Newark!

We have more than one pandemic in Newark. As if COVID’s not enough, we have an escalating disease of car-jacking,…

2 years ago

NJ Policy Perspective: Black Students Have Less Access to Mental Health Staff Than Ever While White/Asian Students Have More

Despite heightened focus on mental health for students since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Black students actually have less…

2 years ago

Just-Released National Test Scores Show How School Closures Decimated Student Learning Over Last Two Years

Today the National Assessment for Educational Progress, or NAEP, released test scores for fourth-graders, mostly nine years old, and they…

2 years ago

COMMENTARY: Do We Really Have a Teacher Shortage and, If We Do, How Can We Fix It?

The American teacher shortage is headlining news stories and infiltrating social media, although there’s little consensus on whether this shortage…

2 years ago

BENNETT: South Orange-Maplewood Board of Education Doesn’t Care If You Can Get Your Child to School

Jeffrey Bennett and his family reside in the South Orange-Maplewood school district. South Orange-Maplewood Public Schools District is a racially-diverse…

2 years ago