Op-ed: Student success, everybody's business

06-22-2011

Opinion by Lauren Wells and Pedro Noguera/New Jersey Spotlight

Lauren Wells is the Director of the Broader Bolder Approach to Education at the Metropolitan Center for Urban Education at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Development. Pedro Noguera is the Peter L. Agnew Professor of Education at New York University.

In May the state delivered student results on the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA) to high schools across New Jersey. At Central High School in Newark, principal Ras Baraka assembled the students and faculty into the school’s auditorium to announce the test results to the entire school community. Everyone in the school was present, and the feeling in the room was electric. There was mixture of excitement, pride and triumphant elation when they learned that the unofficial scores on the HSPA showed a 32.5 percent growth in English Language Arts (from 36.6 percent in 2010 to 69.9 percent in 2011) and a 25.9 percent growth in mathematics (from 19.9 percent in 2010 to 46 percent in 2011). When the results were released publicly at the May 24 Newark Public Schools Advisory Board meeting, the response was equally exuberant. (more...)

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