What Zuckerberg and Ed Reformers Learned from Newark

What Zuckerberg and Ed Reformers Learned from Newark

May 15, 2014

NEWARK REWORKED? Four years, 50 new principals, four new high schools, and the $100 million Mark Zuckerberg pledge later, there's "venomous public anger," according to a long description from the New Yorker. Shavar Jeffries, former Newark Public Schools Advisory Board and President (and who recently conceded the Newark mayoral race), tells reporter Dale Russakoff: “education reform...comes across as colonial to people who’ve been here for decades. It’s very missionary, imposed, done to people rather than in cooperation with people.”

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