Yesterday WHYY Newsworks ran my column which responded to a badly-flawed Courier-Post piece, “Graduation Loophole Common in Camden” on Camden Public Schools’ use of “appeals,”
It starts here: On Monday the Courier-Post asserted that Camden Public Schools conceals an “eye-popping” and “unique” percentage of high school seniors who graduate through
I graduated from Camden schools, and the quality of the education my children were getting has been far below what I received. I’m glad that
Camden Public Schools reports that Principal Keith Miles of Woodrow Wilson High School met yesterday with Sec. Duncan and other senior U.S. D.O.E. officials for
The politics of public education often take center stage in debates about the best way forward for American schools. Advocates for reform do daily battle
It starts here: New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance towards new accountability metrics,
Camden Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard just announced that the high school graduation rate in Camden City Schools, which was 51% in 2012 and 56% in 2013,
In just the past week two parents, one from Camden and one from Delaware Township, have written about their experiences with and thoughts about charter
KIPP NJ currently has one public charter high school: Newark Collegiate Academy. And that one school, which had just over 100 total graduates last year,
It starts here: The statistics are grim in Camden City Schools: according to just-released state data, only 21 percent of children in grades 3-8 can