Remote Instruction

Which One To Choose? Competing Headlines From Two NJ Newspapers

With New Jersey's COVID cases spiking -- yesterday the state reported 3,877 new cases, the highest since April 24 ---parents,…

4 years ago

As NJ Student Learning Slides, NJEA Leaders Cancel Two Days of School for a Poorly-Attended Non-Convention.

Every year I voice my disgust at the unnecessary closure of schools two days in November for the New Jersey…

4 years ago

Q&A: Chris Cerf on Fighting COVID Learning Loss With Great Teaching

Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us…

4 years ago

NJ Students Beg For Respite From Eight Hours of Screens Per Day.

South Brunswick High School students have started a petition begging the School Board and  Superintendent Scott Feder to change the…

4 years ago

Calling All Parents/Teachers Of Children With Autism: Your Help Is Needed.

The New Jersey Autism Center of Excellence is asking for help from parents who have children on the autism spectrum…

4 years ago

Murphy Gets High Grades for Managing COVID Contagion So Why Is He Flunking COVID Schooling?

We as a state, for whatever reason, erred on the side of less guidance for schools when more guidance was…

4 years ago

New Report From School Boards Association: It’s Time for the State Education Department to Do Its Job.

Today the New Jersey School Boards Association released the third in a series of reports on how the coronavirus is…

4 years ago

What’s Everyone Saying About Murphy’s Pick For Education Commissioner?

Many media outlets have reports today on Gov. Phil Murphy’s nomination of Angelica Allen-McMillan for Education Commissioner, five months after…

4 years ago

The COVID Pandemic Has Not Changed Some Things: More Shoddy Research From Jersey Jazzman and NJ Policy Perspective

Mark Weber, Ph.D. (a.k.a., Jersey Jazzman), has published an op-ed in NJSpotlight (based on a report he did for New Jersey Policy…

4 years ago

Montclair Students With Autism Started in-Person School on Friday. One Glitch: Teachers Didn’t Show Up.

This past Friday, 30 Montclair Public School District students arrived at school for their first day of live instruction. These…

4 years ago