by lindaoppenheim | May 4, 2022 | Article, schools
Patrick Wall, of Chalkbeat Newark, reports that the New Jersey attorney general is supporting the state’s Department of Education’s position that the state does not have to reveal its segregation findings about charter schools— or even put them in...
by lindaoppenheim | May 25, 2019 | Community Meeting, Events, schools
A public forum to assess progress in implementing the recommendations of the 2018 Equity Audit Report for the Princeton Public Schools will be held on Wednesday, May 29, 2019 at 4 pm in the John Witherspoon Middle School (217 Walnut Lane, Princeton), in the...
by lindaoppenheim | Oct 17, 2018 | Community Meeting, schools, Video
We are pleased to provide those friends who were unable to attend the NIOT Princeton-sponsored community forum on our School Board candidates with an opportunity to view the evening in its entirety. To open an annotated version of the video in a separate tab, please...
by lindaoppenheim | Sep 11, 2018 | Article, schools
“Research shows that students, especially boys, benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women.” Claire Cain Miller reports on several studies about the impact of teacher gender and race on student achievement. While...
by lindaoppenheim | Jun 22, 2018 | Community Meeting, schools
Those who attended the June 4 Continuing Conversation heard teachers and students from the Racial Literacy and Justice course talk about this new initiative. Come to the next meeting of the Princeton Civil Rights Commission to hear about this and other initiatives...
by lindaoppenheim | Mar 22, 2018 | Article, schools
In his article in the Atlantic, William Brennan describes the efforts of speech pathologist Julie Washington to have schools implement code-switching between the dialect of African American English and standard English in teaching reading and in closing the...
