Student Achievement

New Survey Results from Asbury Park: ‘The State Needs To Come In and Shut This Place Down’

The Asbury Park Education Association sent out a mid-year climate survey to its 375 members asking their opinions of the…

3 years ago

JAMES: A Cry For the Students of Malcolm X Shabazz High School

I'm not sure if everyone has been reading their emails or seeing the reports in the news, but if things…

3 years ago

Cumberland County District Will Have Half-Days All Month Due to Lack of Teachers

How badly are New Jersey schools struggling with Covid regulations and staffing? This badly: middle and high school students in…

3 years ago

ANALYSIS: Fordham’s New Report Nails the Correlation Between Charter School Growth and General Student Success

Today Fordham Institute released a new report, "Still Rising: Charter School Enrollment and Student Achievement at the Metropolitan Level," a…

3 years ago

New Report Tells Us To Do the Math in January 2022

Everyone from President Joe Biden to New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy to AFT President Randi Weingarten has championed the cause…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: New Jersey Educators Need a New Role Model and They’ve Got One in David Banks

The whole goal here is to prepare kids to be able to be college and workforce ready. A lot of…

3 years ago

Camden Parents: We Need Schools to Focus on Transportation and Academic Achievement

Shirley Irizarry is Executive Director of Parents Invincible in Camden, which supports all high-quality schools, regardless of governance; members also…

3 years ago

Two Tales of One City: Roger León’s Phoniness vs. Newark Teachers’ Gloom

A press release published yesterday from Newark Public Schools acclaims the glory that emanated from a parent conference called "Hope…

3 years ago

COMMENTARY: Murphy’s Razor-Thin Win Reveals Elitism of ‘Progressive’ School Politics

Heck, I leave for a week (to welcome my first grandbaby to the world!) and all hell breaks loose. Phil…

3 years ago

Q&A: Meet the Team Behind the Local Foundation Pushing for Educational Innovation

Three years ago Kyle Rosenkrans, a first-generation college graduate, civil rights lawyer, law professor, and public policy advocate, founded the…

3 years ago