In today’s New York Times columnist David Brooks frames the race between mayoral candidates Ras Baraka and Shavar Jeffries as “regular vs. reformer.” Brooks explains
This past January Bruce Baker ( Rutgers prof. and anti-reform blogger) and Mark Weber (Baker’s Ph.D. student and anti-reform blogger) released a report entitled “An
That’s the title of my new NJ Spotlight column: It’s painful to say, but New Jersey’s education reform community might benefit from a victory by
Education Week explains how KIPP’s TEAM Charter Schools in Newark financed the purchase of Newark’s 18th Avenue School (see my post here). The key, says
Fatimah Burnam Watkins, Executive Director of the NJ chapter of Teach For America, corrects the record and replies to the rumor that Newark Superintendent Cami
Newark Update: After a vote of “no confidence,” hostile meetings, and personal attacks (or at least a reference to her children), Superintendent Cami Anderson is
As you all no doubt know by now, Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson has submitted a waiver to the NJ Department of Education to allow her
PolitickerNJ has been all over the increasingly contentious Newark mayoral contest, which it describes as a “proxy for a potential gubernatorial race.” On Wednesday North
If you question whether school reform is the linchpin of the Newark mayoral race, read today’s today’s PolitickerNJ. According to this article, after Sen. Dick
in an essay in the Huffington Post entitled “Poverty, Politics, Racism, and School Reform”: Newark’s inconvenient truth: Our poorest neighborhoods, disproportionately African American, contain some