Jersey Jazzman Jammin' All Week
The Jazzman Speaks! This Saturday, 2/22, Rutgers-Newark
Hey, check out this guy:Saturday, 2/22/14, 10 AM, on the beautiful Rutgers-Newark campus. Free admission, real talk, good times. Sleeping in is overrated anyway...Thanks to Kaleena for making this happen, and to Junius Williams for the invitation. Hope you can make it.
Shocking: Baraka Consults Knowledgable People on Education
Sorry the posting's been light; it's been a crazy busy week. But I don't want to let too much time pass before telling you about my Monday with Ras Baraka.Baraka is currently in a two-man race for mayor of Newark; in my view, it's probably the most interesting political contest in the country between now and the mid-term Congressional elections (yes, this Jersey boy is biased). Baraka's opponent,
FEB 16
Chris Cerf: Just Another Guy Walking Through The Revolving Door
If you are at all surprised by this, you simply haven't been paying attention: Amplify, the educational consulting company soon to be headed by state Education Commissioner Chris Cerf, has been working with the Jersey City school district, which is partly run by the state, as part of a pilot program since January.The 27,000-student district leased, free of charge, more than 50 tablets from New Yo
FEB 11
Chris Cerf's Top Ten Reformy Moments
The resignation of former Acting Commissioner of Education Chris Cerf deserves a contemplative and appropriately serious response.Until then, I present...Chris Cerf's Top Ten Reformy Moments!#10: That's Not A Knife; THIS Is a Knife!Some more insight into Cerf's world:chewytrain Dale Chu @Chiefs4Change Chris Cerf: "This is a knife fight in a dark rm. We haven't shown courage & we've been n
FEB 09
No Credibility Left For Tom Moran and the Star-Ledger Editorial Board
UPDATE BELOWMany of you will be surprised to hear this, but I'm actually starting to feel sorry for Tom Moran, Editorial Page Editor of the Star-Ledger. His newspaper is a fiscal trainwreck, heading for the same fate as its sister paper, the New Orleans Times-Picayune (although it's hard to imagine anyone in Newark rallying to "save" the S-L like they did for the T-P in the Big Easy). He
FEB 05
Local Control: In New Jersey, It's Not For "Them"
Bob Braun breaks an amazing story, once again showing Newark's public schools administration is out of control:A parent leader who criticized the “One Newark” plan pushed by state school superintendent Cami Anderson was arrested yesterday on charges he assaulted a central office administrator. Daryn Martin, president of the Parent Teacher Organization at the Ivy Hill School, was charged with ”agg
FEB 03
State-Run Newark Schools Blow Snow Closings Again
Just received this via email from a teacher in the Newark Public Schools:We got texts from our dcs saying that school was closed at 7:39.This means that she [State Superintendent Cami Anderson] waited until 7 or later to make the call. Kids and teachers were already in schools when they got the message. This is either incompetence or payback for our resistance to her. Either way, it's disrespectfu
FEB 02
David Wildstein: Before Bridgegate, Christie's Best Teacher Basher
It looks like a large portion of the pre-Super Bowl commentary this weekend has been reserved for political pundits proclaiming the death of Chris Christie’s 2016 presidential campaign. Poor fellow: here he is, governor of the state hosting the biggest sports spectacle of the year, but forced to keep a low profile because of Friday afternoon’s bombshell:David Wildstein – Christie’s childhood fr