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New Jersey Skated by for Years on Misleading Graduation Rates, But Now We’re Closing the “Honesty Gap”
Does it seem odd to you that we’re celebrating the fact that half of New Jersey’s third-graders are at or…
Freehold, SOS-NJ, and Valerie Strauss: An Example of the Proliferation of Fake News
You know fake news is being normalized when an organization that flaunts its supposedly grassroots progressive pedigree engages in Trumpery.…
Is Integration Your Silver Bullet? Time to Get Real.
Last week I wrote a post about a report on N.J.'s segregated schools by Professor Gary Orfield et. al. which…
Newark Update
I have a new column up at NJ Spotlight called "The Four Factors Behind Newark's Education Turnaround buy topamax online…
Beverly City Schools Makes “Incredible Progress” By Using Data to Focus on Kids
(This post is by Chris Minnich, Executive Director, Council of Chief State School Officers, and originally appeared in Huffington Post.) I…
How Do We Foster Integration and Inclusion in New Jersey?
(This is a guest post by Aggie Sung, a certified early education teacher whose passion is in children’s books that…
Confessions from A Recovering Academic; Or, The Problems with Proffered Solutions To N.J.’s Segregated Schools (with apologies to Emily Dickinson)
The Civil Rights Project has a new academic paper out called “New Jersey’s Segregated Schools Trends and Paths Forward,” a…
New Jersey’s Pension Crisis is Largely the Fault of NJEA Leaders: Here’s Why.
(This is a guest post by Michael Lilley, former executive director of Better Education For NJ Kids (B4K) and an adjunct…
“For the Camden Teachers’ Union, It’s Politics as Usual”: A Response to an Attack on Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard
I’ve written about Keith Benson before, president of the Camden Education Association and and paranoid conspiracy theorist who claims that…
Talk About Chutzpah: Lakewood Board Hires a Lawyer to Defend Its Profligate Hire of Inzelbuch
School board members can get funny about money. When you’re dealing with multi-million dollar budgets, big expenses suddenly appear small…