School Culture

ELIAS: In Order To Raise the Odds of Student Success, Let’s Work for the Common Good on Common Ground

Maurice J. Elias, Ph.D., is Professor of Psychology at Rutgers in New Brunswick and is on the Leadership Teams of…

3 years ago

Q and A: You Won’t Retain Black Teachers Without Transforming Your School Culture

New Jersey badly lacks teachers of color and the cost is borne by Black and Brown children. If a Black…

3 years ago

Did the Teacher in South Orange-Maplewood Really Pull the Student’s Hijab Off?

After countless stories from the likes of the Patch, the Jerusalem Post, and NBC, as well as social media sites…

3 years ago

Local Union Places a Coffin With an Image of a Dead Body in Front of This Elementary School

Children arriving for their second day of school at Lincoln Elementary School in Edison were greeted by a funeral casket…

3 years ago

NJ School Board Member Calls Kamala Harris a ‘Streetwalker’

Gregory R. Martucci, a school board member and Democratic councilmanin the Union County city of Linden, called Vice President Kamala…

3 years ago

New Program Helps Jewish Students and Newark Students Find Common Ground

I have a kid who’s in a school in an upper middle class neighborhood, and (it’s) mostly white kids. And…

4 years ago

No Retakes, No Extensions: A Student’s Open Letter To Incoming Education Secretary Miguel Cardona

This is a post by Gregory Wickham, a New York City student. He is the son of best-selling writer Alina Adams, who…

4 years ago

NJ Student’s Letter to New Ed Commissioner: My Teacher Helps Me Gather the Courage to Speak in a Space That Prefers My Silence.

This letter first appeared in The 74. Dear Dr. Angelica Allen-McMillan, Commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Education, I…

4 years ago

Here’s Some Visual Therapy: Get Ready to Smile!

We all need a break from politics and there's no better way to assuage the soul than seeing the bright,…

4 years ago

Khaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress

One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a…

4 years ago