In an excellent piece of investigative journalism by Patrick Wall of Chalkbeat, “The pandemic set back student learning. Newark kept the data under wraps,” published in NJ
Back in March the non-profit JerseyCAN commissioned a report to quantify learning loss among New Jersey students during the pandemic. On average, New Jersey students
A new national poll out from Morning Consult looks at Black, Hispanic, and White parents’ views on returning to school, getting vaccinated, wanting tutoring services,
Remote learning during the pandemic has indeed taken its toll on NJ students. The New Jersey Globe reported that based on interim tests 37% of NJ students
On Monday Parents Invincible, a new non-profit headed by longtime Camden activist Shirley Irizarry, sent a questionnaire to all Camden schools seeking information on how
When high-school computer science teacher Harold Brown walked through the doors of KIPP Newark Collegiate Academy (NCA), his colleagues surprised him with an Amazon box
Dashawn Sheffield, a rising 11th-grader at Uncommon Schools’ North Star Academy Washington Park High School in Newark, explains why he decided to launch a new
Marguerite Roza, Director of the Edunomics Lab and Research Professor at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy and national expert on school finance, has
Laura McKenna is an education writer based in New Jersey. You can find her here (www.lauramckenna.com). This article was originally published at Laura McKenna’s Substack newsletter.
Today JerseyCAN, a nonprofit advocating for high-quality schools for all New Jersey students, launched a centralized multimedia platform to assist local districts and charter schools