Culture, Data and Measurement: Possible Factors Connected to the BHPSNJ Declines
My Fifth Email to the BOE on Possible Causes for the Decline and Suggestions on How to Repair Them A disquieting aspect of the last BOE meeting was how unaware the BOE majority and Superintendent were of the declines in our proficiency. And then, more disturbing, was an attempt to make Dr. Foregger and Ms. Khanna look foolish or silly...
Possible Factors Connected to the Decline of Berkeley Heights Schools: Family Engagement
My Fourth Email to the BOE on Possible Causes for the Decline and Suggestion on How to Repair Them A tremendous body of evidence supports family engagement as necessary for successful outcomes in human services. Many studies have pointed to family engagement as leading to higher academic achievement, pro-social behaviors, and interpersonal effectiveness. In its review of 51 Studies on...
Impact of Reconfiguration & School Transitions on Students and the BHPSNJ Decline
My third email to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education on Possible Reasons Behind the BHPSNJ Decline What should have been a thoughtful and considered process on the reconfiguration of our schools turned into an obsessive, rushed campaign that sought to get FDK approved at all costs with no consideration for the future. There was already a predetermined path with...
What Happens When We Broaden The Dashboard?
Rankings and Scores Compared to 24 other High Schools and 29 other K-8’s The dashboard that we have been using includes six other schools we felt were comparable to Berkeley Heights. Families can know that the picture is perhaps even more concerning than what our dashboard depicts. When we broaden the sample to 25 schools we find that Governor Livingston...
BHCW 05/21/2023 Newsletter
What’s Important to Know About Berkeley Heights this Week….. Online Newsletter Download PDF Version There are three ways to get BHCW content delivered to your doorstep: (1) Sign-Up for our weekly/bi weekly newsletter. This is the most popular option so far. Subscribers will get email with articles published for the time period in between. (2) Subscribe to our Substack which will deliver articles...
Reassignments, Resignations and the Berkeley Heights Public School District’s Decline
The First of Several Emails I will be sending to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education Exploring the Reasons For the Decline and How to Reverse It Last week I wrote a series of emails to the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and published articles outlining the drop in proficiencies, their relation to our significant drop in the rankings, and...
Varley: Building a Legacy of Division and Decline
The Last Four Years Have Been Tragic for Berkeley Heights No matter what source of data you review, they all have the same theme; Berkeley Heights Public Schools are declining. The reason is simple… We are declining because Melissa Varley has our children and teachers as the District’s lowest priorities. When we get toward the end of the year, it’s...
Putting It All Together – Rankings, Ratings, Proficiency and Budget
Exploring a connection between proficiency, rankings and budget… I emailed the Berkeley Heights Board of Education and Superintendent the following summary (excuse typos): I would like to share with you the ratings and rankings themselves along with the Budget. I’ve written about this before and I’m pretty certain you’ve read what I’ve written, however, it didn’t seem like you had any recollection of...
Two Years Of Shining A Light-2023
What we’ve accomplished this year… Today marks two years since we published our first article. When we launched, our goal was to inform the public about the lack of research behind and violations of laws surrounding the reconfiguration of our District and the disingenuous tactic of the Administration and Board Majority of conflating Kindergarten with throwing children and teachers out...
What About The Mountainside Kids?
Comparison of Mountainside, Berkeley Heights and what Happens At Governor Livingston…. I decided to look at Mountainside as their residents have a vested interest in a Superintendent’s report concerning Governor Livingston. Given the different k-8 configurations between Berkeley Heights and Mountainside, in the interest of time, I decided to average out the Berkeley Heights numbers except for Science and...
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