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Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings on Zoom. Many of us assumed this was a short-term s

Much of the public discussion about pandemic education has focused on two major questions: How are families handling remote learning? What does safe reopen

Now would be a good time to listen to Rev. Al Sharpton. You didn’t see that coming. Me, of all people, pointing to a left-of-center Civil Rights leader on

https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/3437224209696920 Yes, there is a big national election happening. But if you really want to improve policy

Recently I wrote that a residency hearing with two children, Kayla and Tasha, represented to me our deeply-embedded structural inequities in education that

One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, was riding home on a NJ Transit bus with her frie

https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/1278683725823697 In a politically polarized nation, public trust in government is on the decline. How do we

https://www.facebook.com/246491525549550/videos/755232221875879 School boards have tremendous power in shaping whether the children in your community get a

Every four years, millions of teachers are, once again, disappointed and disillusioned when education gets the short end of the stick. Nothing more than a