Blog Post: 3 Takeaways for Newark from Recent Report on Camden Educational Progress
By Kyle Rosenkrans This week, The Newark Star-Ledger editorial board published an editorial highlighting a recent report on academic progress in Camden. Here’s what we take away from it and what we think it means for Newark: City education systems can evolve into a mix of district schools and charter/renaissance schools and deliver a net…Read More
Newark’s schools have clearly improved, researcher says. But why?
By Jesse Margolis, As Cory Booker campaigns for president, many are asking: have the schools in Newark improved since he was elected mayor in 2006? In a study my co-author Eli Groves and I released, we find the answer to be yes. Since 2006, public school students in Newark have made substantial gains along a number of…Read More
Newark schools — traditional and charter — have made big gains since 2006, new report shows
By Patrick Wall, School closures, mass protests, and a boom in charter schools — the past decade was a tumultuous one for Newark schools. Yet, today, Newark students are better off academically than they were before. That’s the conclusion of a new report that looks at test scores and graduation rates at Newark’s traditional and charter schools…Read More