Inequity

How Do New Jersey Schools Rate Through an ‘Equity Lens’? Not As Well As You’d Think.

Education Trust, a nonprofit that works to close opportunity gaps that disproportionately affect students of color and students from low-income…

3 years ago

EXPLAINER: What Are Standardized Tests and Why Do We Need Them?

Few education topics get parents, teachers, and school leaders more riled up than discussions about using results from student tests…

3 years ago

Spring Break Goes COVID-Wild: Focus on Equity

Twenty-four students at Glen Rock High School in Bergen County tested positive for the novel coronavirus after returning from Spring…

4 years ago

New Jersey’s Educational Caste System, Lakewood’s Elephant in the Room, and One Truth-Speaker

I’m awfully hard on Education Law Center so it is with pleasure that I salute Executive Director David Sciarra’s candor…

4 years ago

What’s Another $32.5 Million? Doing the Math in Lakewood Public Schools

The Asbury Park Press reports that Rabbi Osher Eisemann, founder of the Lakewood private special education school called The School…

4 years ago

COMMENTARY: Will Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary Work for All Kids?

We want to support you so that you can get to the great work of helping kids. You have to…

4 years ago

Covert Collective Action? One-Third of Princeton Teachers Request Leaves of Absence.

For a completely different vibe than Lakewood on school reopenings (see previous post), let’s turn to Princeton Regional Public Schools.…

4 years ago

Murphy’s School Reopening Plan Will Open Pandora’s Box, Say New Jersey Superintendents

Last week Governor Murphy and Education Commissioner Repollet gave New Jersey school districts permission to open schools on July 6th…

4 years ago

With Repetition and Consistency, This Special Education Teacher Is Keeping Her Students on Track

As New Jersey enters its fourth month of school closures due to COVID-19, students on the margins are predictably suffering…

4 years ago

At A Loss For Words, Knowing I Need to Speak

This is a guest post by Patrick Riccards, executive director of Best in the World Teachers. Riccards, a resident of…

4 years ago