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Author: Laura Waters

Q&A: Chris Cerf on Fighting COVID Learning Loss With Great Teaching

Laura Waters November 4, 2020 Leave a comment

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Last March schools across the country closed and typical live instruction morphed into erratic meetings →

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COMMENTARY: Hear Me Out on My Voucher Proposal

Laura Waters October 29, 2020 Leave a comment

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This is the third in a series on my changing views of publicly-funded vouchers to →

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COMMENTARY: Lowering Standards Appears to Be Contagious, Too. I’m Looking at You, New York City.

Laura Waters October 28, 2020 One Comment

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CASES SPIKE IN NEW YORK CITY There’s another virus spreading in the tri-state area and, →

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Murphy Gets High Grades for Managing COVID Contagion So Why Is He Flunking COVID Schooling?

Laura Waters October 26, 2020 Leave a comment

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We as a state, for whatever reason, erred on the side of less guidance for →

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Newsflash: Newark Voters Want More High-Quality Public Schools, Charter or Traditional.

Laura Waters October 26, 2020 3 Comments

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This morning Change Research and the New Jersey Children’s Foundation released a poll that shows →

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Khaliah Fitchett on Going From Handcuffs to Running for Congress

Laura Waters October 21, 2020 Leave a comment

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One afternoon in March 2010, Khaliah Fitchette, a 16-year-old student at Newark’s University High School, →

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Experts Confirm Newark Is Another Victim of NJ’s Terrible Plan for School Reopenings

Laura Waters October 20, 2020 Leave a comment

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As reported by Chalkbeat yesterday: The Newark school system is preparing for students to return →

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Karega Rausch Says Charter Schools Get Better Outcomes for Kids When They Listen to Communities

Laura Waters October 19, 2020 Leave a comment

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Last week I interviewed Karega Rausch, the new Executive Director of the non-partisan National Association →

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My Grandma Would Tell Me, ‘Lakewood Is Bad for the Jews.’

Laura Waters October 16, 2020 One Comment

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My grandmother of blessed memory, Lena Weinman, divided the universe into two parts, what was →

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Will NJEA Cry Segregation When They See Niche Rankings of Our State’s Top Schools? I Doubt It, But They Should.

Laura Waters October 15, 2020 Leave a comment

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Niche, the platform that rates schools across the country, just announced the “top five public →

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