Science teacher

Every day I am asked what the secret is to ensuring every child in New Jersey graduates from high school ready for college and career,...

Among other things, Cerf recommends the governor convene a task force to explore... whether poor students should be "presumed to be ...

An old-fashioned gum eraser ($0.45) New Jersey, like several other states, has an eraser problem--children in some districts have a bad ha...

Rajeev Bajaj runs Global Education Advisors , originally a "one person" company with grammar issues founded using Chris Cerf...

Mark Zuckerberg donated a huge chunk of money, $100 million,  to Newark, to help education. A few other people kicked in $48 million more. ...

"Remember when..." Late June is a great time to be an American. Stories are told during the long, soft dusk. Lightning bugs almo...

I'm reading Umberto Eco , a June indulgence. He's bright, and interesting, and mostly right, but he's also, well, um, a professi...

Mid-June. The blueberries are still mostly green, just blue enough to remind me of Uranus through our scope. Raspberries and snow peas a...

I teach for two reasons: One, I have a ridiculously passionate attachment to watching the world, the one that exists whether (or not) human...

"If you run an ice cream store in town and there's a law that says you can be the only one that runs the ice cream store, you are ...

I am not inherently opposed to charter schools.  I am opposed to outsiders narrowing public spaces in my community. Call me provincial, pa...

Cerf said that only 22 percent of incoming high school freshmen in Newark ever graduate with a diploma, and even then "it's not e...