English Language Arts (ELA)

Meet Chika OgbuokIrI, Seventh Grade Poet at Camden’s KIPP Lanning Square Middle School!

Chika OgbuokIrI is a seventh grader at KIPP Lanning Square Middle School in Camden. Yet another Poet Laureate in the…

4 years ago

Meet Newark’s Own Amanda Gorman, Seventh-Grade Poet Makayla Brown

A month ago, as Amanda Gorman shared her beautiful prose during President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ inauguration,…

4 years ago

RICCARDS: 48 U.S. States Teach Reading More Effectively Than New Jersey

“Follow the science.” For nearly a year now, that has been the mantra governing all decisions regarding New Jersey’s public…

4 years ago

Oops, Balanced Literacy Doesn’t Work Like We’ve Said It Did for Half a Century. Our Bad.

“Pouring over the work of contemporary reading researchers has led us to believe that aspects of balanced literacy need some…

4 years ago

Ruth Bader Ginsburg Knew that Reading Makes Dreams Come True

While heartfelt tributes and political panic saturate America’s media platforms in the wake of RBG’s passing, her comments about the importance of…

4 years ago

For Students Who Struggle With Reading, This Mom of a Dyslexic Son Has Some COVID-19 Era Advice

This is a guest post by Debbie Meyer, a founding member of the Dyslexia (Plus) in Public Schools Task Force,…

5 years ago

Oops. New Jersey DOE Leaders Just Made a Mistake.

On October 12, last Friday,  Assistant Education Commissioner Linda Eno sent a letter to all “Chief School Administrators, Charter School and…

6 years ago