Online Instruction

COMMENTARY: From Bridgewater to Newark, Parents Are Demanding Virtual Options. What If We Listened?

In June Gov. Phil Murphy decreed that this September all schools must provide in-person full-time instruction and the days of…

3 years ago

Montclair Parent Compares District to ‘Totalitarian Regime’ Regarding Student Data Privacy

“I herewith specifically do NOT give consent to the use of goguardian on my son’s devices! Coming from a cultural…

4 years ago

Newark’s Oscar James: It’s “Business as Usual” For District Superintendent And I Can’t Sleep at Night.

I want to talk about one of the many reasons I started Newark Neighborhood View and one of the many…

4 years ago

I Nearly Broke My Back But My Kid’s In A Program

Dear readers, my writing is sparse this week and here’s why: On Tuesday morning, for the first time in six…

4 years ago

“Flexibility” Is Fine, Gov. Murphy, But Not When It’s an Evasion of Leadership.

Dear Governor Murphy,  Today you have an op-ed in NJ Spotlight asserting that New Jersey’s education system is a “gem”…

4 years ago

Pressure Builds on Murphy To Keep Schools Closed and Go All-Remote

Governor Phil Murphy is trying to juggle the academic needs of schoolchildren, valid health concerns of teachers, and a sudden…

4 years ago

Inzelbuch’s Letter to Union Leaders Says Lakewood Isn’t Risking Covid Contagion With Full-Time In-Person Schools

Below is a letter, dated yesterday, from Lakewood attorney Michael Inzelbuch to the leaders of the Lakewood Education Association, Kimberlee…

4 years ago

100,000 Students in New Jersey Are Cut Off From Remote Instruction: Murphy and Repollet Say “Let Them Eat Cake.”

In mid-March President Trump told a group of governors they were on their own in searching for respirators to help…

5 years ago

Sources Reveal the Story Behind NJ’s Inequitable Online Learning

Joicki Floyd is an English teacher at Newark’s Weequahic High School which, like the rest of New Jersey, is relying…

5 years ago

Four Reasons Why Public Schools Won’t Return to “Normal” Anytime Soon

Yogi Berra proclaimed (perhaps apocryphally), “predictions are difficult, especially about the future.” I have no crystal ball but, whenever this…

5 years ago