achievement gap

by ALIYAH ANDREWS, ISIS AREVALO, MIKEE ELLIS and GENESIS WHITLOCK Special to Montclair Local This piece is part of our "Town Square" opinion essay section. The writers are organizers of Black Lives Matter Montclair. Over the past few months our community has shown an overwhelming amount of support for the Black Lives Matter movement...

Structural issues, including the availability of affordable housing and the wealth gap, play a key role in Montclair schools' achievement gap, experts say.

The Montclair NAACP Youth Council held a “Let’s Talk About It” event on Sunday, May 24, for the public to share their thoughts on what is contributing to Montclair’s long-standing achievement gap, and how those issues could probably be addressed.

by TINA KELLEY special to Montclair Local In a basement room of the Renaissance Middle School, a handful of teachers meet regularly to continue the work of the school district’s Undoing Racism workshops. Following a recommendation from a panel studying the achievement gap among races, the district offered the workshops to its entire staff starting in 2015, to promote equity and address the impact

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news New Jersey will be phasing out two PARCC tests this year. The announcement came just as the Montclair schools released some preliminary data on the spring 2018 PARCC test results on Oct. 3. The State Board of Education voted to eliminate some of the PARCC requirements for high school students, and to allow students to pursue alternate assessments for graduatio

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news It has been three years since the Montclair school district released a report concluding the achievement gap between white students and students of color, and between wealthy students and poorer students was significant...

By Jaimie Julia Winters winters@montclairlocal.news In 1977, the Montclair school district moved away from the neighborhood school model and instead chose the choice system. Forty-one years later, the district is being lauded for its diversity among the student population throughout its district...

By ERIN ROLL roll@montclairlocal.news Montclair wants to update its achievement gap advisory study done in 2015 by gathering more detailed and up-to-date data. Three years ago, the Achievement Gap Advisory Panel had found discrepancies between white students and students of color in the placement of students into AP and small learning community classes, test scores and disciplinary actions includ