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The Hechinger Report

Covering Innovation & Inequality in Education

Category: A Promise to Renew

In 2012, Newark education officials set out to reform their city’s lowest-performing schools. The Hechinger Report was granted extraordinary access to one of them, Quitman Street Renew School, to chronicle its successes and setbacks. Our ongoing series, which has won numerous journalism awards, goes behind the scenes as Principal Erskine Glover and his staff take on one of the hardest –– and most important –– jobs in the nation.

How technology helped deliver a taste of victory to a struggling Newark School

by Jackie Pugh November 26, 2015March 30, 2020

When Sara Neufeld wrote in The Hechinger Report last year that Newark’s Quitman Street Renew School had the greatest test score gains in reading of all 45 elementary and middle schools in Newark the prior spring, we at Education Elements saw it as triumph. Quitman Street is one of the schools that has used our […]

Dedicated teachers can’t provide the whole answer, says Newark’s mayor

by Ras Baraka November 17, 2015March 30, 2020

A three-year look at a school trying to turn around — and the kids depending on it

by Hechinger Report November 16, 2015March 30, 2020

Does anyone have the answers on school turnarounds?

by Sara Neufeld May 14, 2015March 30, 2020

A taste of victory, finally, for a struggling Newark school

by Sara Neufeld December 19, 2014March 30, 2020

At Newark school striving for turnaround, a 12-year-old’s fragile success

by Sara Neufeld November 20, 2014March 30, 2020

Surrounded by messy school reform and ‘drama’ on the streets, a Newark girl tries to land on her feet

by Sara Neufeld July 31, 2014March 30, 2020

Hidden successes, public shortfalls and a make-or-break year for one Newark school

by Sara Neufeld March 3, 2014March 30, 2020

A Newark school leader’s urgency to renew

by Sara Neufeld June 28, 2013March 30, 2020

Perseverance at a Newark school following midyear teacher turnover

by Sara Neufeld May 28, 2013March 30, 2020

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