I’ve been taking a big-picture look at Camden (more on this next week) and one particular data point stood out. Currently the city has three
The Center for Reinventing Education (CRPE) is the go-to resource for K-12 education since the onset of the pandemic, collecting data and issuing analyses on
The American teacher shortage is headlining news stories and infiltrating social media, although there’s little consensus on whether this shortage is new or if it
Last week news broke that 98% of Newark fourth-graders are not expected to meet state expectations in math this spring. This alarming projection didn’t come
Back in September Governor Murphy announced that all students would be back in school full-time, in-person and that parents “will not be enabled to broad
I live in Lawrence, New Jersey—a middle-class, diverse town, halfway between Princeton and Trenton. For years I was on the school board and was very
In New Jersey-and elsewhere–students with disabilities are an afterthought during pandemic schooling. Take 14-year-old Maryah Santos of Newark, whose cognitive impairments make it difficult for
Last week, by a vote of 6-3, the Bridgewater-Raritan School Board approved a resolution telling Gov. Phil Murphy to have the state Department of Education
Seven months ago, before the Delta variant of COVID-19 reversed hard-won decreases in disease transmission, Gov. Phil Murphy issued a mandate that “all students will
Two months ago, U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona said in a statement, “Schools have shown that they can – and should – be offering in-person