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Does a New Jersey High School Diploma Signify Anything At All?

Laura Waters March 5, 2018

Here’s the start of my new column at NJ Spotlight Last month, New Jersey’s new acting Commissioner of Education Lamont Repollet described the state’s sixth year in

The “Virtuous Circle” in Camden: Positive Progress Yields Community Support

Laura Waters February 1, 2018

Bryan Morton, Executive Director of Great Camden Schools, has an op-ed in the Courier Post that traces the arc of Camden Public Schools’ transformation, which

What If We Held Traditional School to the Same Standards As Charter Schools?

Laura Waters January 26, 2018

The Star-Ledger reports that the International Academy of Trenton (IAT), a public charter school serving grades K-5, is being shut down for failing to meet

An Addendum to the Four Education Promises Gov. Murphy Can’t Keep

Laura Waters January 24, 2018

I have a piece in The 74 called “Four Education Promises New Jersey’s New Governor Can’t — or Shouldn’t — Keep.” If I had a

Out-going DOE Deputy Commissioner On How New Jersey’s Recent Education Changes Help Students

Laura Waters January 23, 2018

(This is a guest post by Peter Shulman who was, until very recently, Deputy Commissioner of the Education for New Jersey. He helped drive policy

If We’re Really About Leveling the Academic Playing Field, We Need to Prioritize the Arts

Laura Waters January 12, 2018

(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that teach young learners to express

Charter Schools Closing in on State Averages on Third Year of PARCC Testing: Newark Charters Outperform State Average in Math

Laura Waters December 18, 2017

New Jersey charter schools continue to narrow the achievement gap on the third year of Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)

New Jersey Skated by for Years on Misleading Graduation Rates, But Now We’re Closing the “Honesty Gap”

Laura Waters December 14, 2017

Does it seem odd to you that we’re celebrating the fact that half of New Jersey’s third-graders are at or above grade level in language

Freehold, SOS-NJ, and Valerie Strauss: An Example of the Proliferation of Fake News

Laura Waters December 11, 2017

You know fake news is being normalized when an organization that flaunts its supposedly grassroots progressive pedigree engages in Trumpery. Okay, maybe that’s a little

Here’s What Matt Barnum Gets Wrong About Education Reform in Newark

Laura Waters October 18, 2017

Maybe it’s because I’m at the New Jersey Charter School Association annual conference and last evening heard Norm Atkins, founder of Uncommon Schools, remark that

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