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Newark’s Mayor Woos Schools Backers
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Fall 2006 | Education Next
Newark Mayor Cory Booker is busy raising funds to match the $100 million grant for the city’s schools announced last week by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. David Skinner profiled Cory Booker in the Fall 2006 issue of Ed Next.
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A Wall Street Journal editorial warns of “the potential for arrested educational development” related to decisions by some school districts, in response to the pandemic, to suspend or alter their usual grading policies. Says the Journal: “The pandemic will pass, but what used to be called the soft bigotry of low expectations helps no one but teachers who don’t want to be measured by what their students learn.”
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