December 17, 2024
John Migueis is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and the administrator of NJ21st.com, a platform dedicated to analyzing and reporting on municipal, education, and state […]
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October 10, 2024
Last year in Newark Mayor Ras Baraka declared an “urgent literacy crisis” that has eased only slightly: According to last spring’s standardized test scores, 23% […]
June 11, 2024
The Star-Ledger Editorial Board originally published this commentary. After more than a decade of sturdy improvements in Newark schools, we are now seeing a tragic […]
May 30, 2024
At Foundation Academies, a public charter school in Trenton, students have made huge strides according to the 2023 New Jersey School Performance Reports, which rates […]
May 14, 2024
A new report from the Joseph C. Cornwall Center for Metropolitan Studies and the Latino Action Network Foundation calls the academic progress of Latino students […]
April 24, 2024
School districts throughout America are confronting the “fiscal cliff” they’ll face next year after the federal Covid emergency funds expire. In New Jersey we have […]
April 19, 2024
Yesterday Democrats for Education Reform partner Education Reform Now Advocacy released results from an extensive study in collaboration with Impact Research and BSP Research. Seeking […]
April 5, 2024
Yesterday the Pew Research Center published the results of a survey asking teachers across the country how well students were learning and how they were […]
April 5, 2024
Foundation Academies ranked higher than most schools statewide on the 2023 New Jersey School Performance Report published today, making up more than half of its pandemic […]
March 28, 2024
Katherine Bassett is the president and CEO of the New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc. a nonprofit organization committed to bringing New Jersey’s K-8 scholars to […]
March 26, 2024
A new report from Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research and Stanford’s Educational Opportunity Project measures how much learning loss students suffered in each […]
March 26, 2024
Jonathan Shutman Ed.D. is a retired elementary school principal. Since retirement, he has taught at Brookdale Community College, mentored for NJL2L, supervised student teachers for Stockton […]