Student Outcomes

COMMENTARY: New Jersey Parents Face Off Against a Education Department That’s Too Dense to Care

A new bill in the New Jersey Senate would make state finances “readily accessible to the public,” says Senate Budget…

2 years ago

Why Did NJ Student Learning Tank More Than Almost Any Other State?

New Jersey residents may be surprised by the news, released Monday, that on the highly-regarded tests called the National Assessment…

2 years ago

Will Starting High Schools Later Create Different Problems?

Rob Jennings is a reporter at Advance Media, where this first appeared. 5:48 a.m. That’s when my alarm went off…

3 years ago

Senate Education Committee Demands a "Reckoning With Truth," Despite Pleas From NJEA

After the U.S. education system fractured into Zoom screens last spring, experts feared millions of children would fall behind. Hard…

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

Dear Dr. Repollet (and Gov. Murphy and NJEA): School Spending Is NOT a Proxy for Educational Equity.

Subject: A message from Dr. RepolletSeptember 6, 2019Dear Fellow NJDOE Employees,The start of a new school year is always a…

5 years ago

“If We Can’t Look In the Mirror and Think We’re Doing the Right Thing, Then We Need To Change What We’re Doing.”

Today’s New York Times has a story about a two-year-old named Skylar Jones born in 2014 with a “common and…

5 years ago