Black Students

New Report on ‘Unfinished Learning’ Finds Our Kids Are Not Okay

This is a disaster. The bottom has fallen out, and the results are as bad as you can imagine. We…

3 years ago

Q and A: You Won’t Retain Black Teachers Without Transforming Your School Culture

New Jersey badly lacks teachers of color and the cost is borne by Black and Brown children. If a Black…

3 years ago

Local Advocates for Low-Income Students Demand ‘Urgent and Immediate’ Support from School Board

Last Thursday Every Child Valued (ECV), the non-profit that partners with the Lawrence Township Public Schools to improve educational outcomes…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Nikole Hannah-Jones Needs a History Lesson on School Choice

https://twitter.com/nhannahjones/status/1446212919948156935 That’s Nikole Hannah-Jones, of the New York Times and 1619 Project, tweeting last week about “school choice advocates” who,…

3 years ago

LILLEY: Sorry, Guys: It’s Not ‘Reparations’ If the Extra Money Goes to White Teachers

History has taught me that the New Jersey Policy Perspective (NJPP) duo of Mark “Jersey Jazzman” Weber and Bruce Baker…

3 years ago

A Full COVID-19 Recovery Tomorrow Means Investing in Our Kids Today

Graig Weiss is the Chief Executive Officer of Foundation Academies, a high-performing charter school network in Trenton.  For the last…

3 years ago

At This Summer Program in Camden, Black Pride and Academic Achievement Go Hand-in-Hand

Erika Asikoye, who grew up in New Jersey, is the Director of the Freedom School Literacy Academy (FSLA) at The Center for…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: From Bridgewater to Newark, Parents Are Demanding Virtual Options. What If We Listened?

In June Gov. Phil Murphy decreed that this September all schools must provide in-person full-time instruction and the days of…

3 years ago

With Newark Homicides Rising, District Equips Mostly-Black Schools with Gunshot Detectors

Newark Public Schools, responding to a doubling of homicides in the city compared to the same time last year, is…

3 years ago

EXPLAINER: The Truth About Critical Race Theory and How It Shows Up in Your Child’s Classroom

WHAT IS CRITICAL RACE THEORY? Critical race theory (sometimes abbreviated to CRT) is an intellectual approach to looking at U.S. society…

3 years ago