One of the criticisms of charter schools is that they come into a neighborhood and supplant the traditional school, without…
Much of the analysis of the public education system in Newark feels unreliable; everyone, it seems, has an agenda. “New…
I’m trying to figure it out too. We know that eight students, members of the Newark Students Union, have been…
It starts here:Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in a PARCC simulation, a forty-five…
At this moment a small group of Newark Public School students have been “occupying” the district’s central office on Cedar…
The Brookings Institute just released its 2014 Education Choice and Competition Index and one of the star players is Newark…
Shayvonne Anderson , a Newark mother of ten children who range in age from five to eighteen, explains in the…
My new Spotlight column is out today. It starts here:News from Newark Public Schools is alarming. Earlier this month state…
It starts here:New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance…
It starts here:Cami Anderson may not win anyone’s Superintendent of the Year award, but you’ve got to give her credit…