Mark Weber
@jerseyjazzman.bsky.social
Education policy analyst, teacher, musician. Lecturer, Rutgers University Grad School of Education. @njpolicy.bsky.social @shankerinst.bsky.social NEPC Fellow. Jazz pianist and composer. Music educator.
Rutgers GSE is hiring in Ed Leadership.
November 8, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Rutgers GSE is hiring in Ed Leadership.
New Providence, NJ. Sleepy suburb, almost all Republican town council. This should be the MAGA base, but...
October 18, 2025 at 4:05 PM
New Providence, NJ. Sleepy suburb, almost all Republican town council. This should be the MAGA base, but...
This BTW, is not a good answer, b/c Farage is most definitely not describing CRT. Don't let these people get away with their race-baiting frameworks.
October 11, 2025 at 12:00 PM
This BTW, is not a good answer, b/c Farage is most definitely not describing CRT. Don't let these people get away with their race-baiting frameworks.
Both-sides-ism is going to destroy this country.
October 10, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Both-sides-ism is going to destroy this country.
Philadelphia sports last night:
October 10, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Philadelphia sports last night:
New post: When It Comes To School Finance, Ciattarelli Doesn't Know Jack: Part 1 jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/when... The Republican candidate for NJ gov keeps messing up his facts about NJ schools.
October 9, 2025 at 11:46 PM
New post: When It Comes To School Finance, Ciattarelli Doesn't Know Jack: Part 1 jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/when... The Republican candidate for NJ gov keeps messing up his facts about NJ schools.
Fox News is straight up garbage. Every cable system should allow customers to opt out of paying for this trash.
October 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
Fox News is straight up garbage. Every cable system should allow customers to opt out of paying for this trash.
Jack Ciattarelli says NJ schools should be more like Mississippi's. Has he seen the Grade 8 NAEP scores? jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/nj-g...
October 5, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Jack Ciattarelli says NJ schools should be more like Mississippi's. Has he seen the Grade 8 NAEP scores? jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/nj-g...
New post: NJ Governor's Race and Education, Part I: Should NJ Become Mississippi? jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/nj-g... NJ Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, thinks New Jersey has something to learn from Mississippi when it comes to schools. The data say otherwise.
October 5, 2025 at 1:59 AM
New post: NJ Governor's Race and Education, Part I: Should NJ Become Mississippi? jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com/2025/10/nj-g... NJ Republican candidate for governor, Jack Ciattarelli, thinks New Jersey has something to learn from Mississippi when it comes to schools. The data say otherwise.
Lie after lie after lie...
September 30, 2025 at 12:05 AM
Lie after lie after lie...
Next: if you're not measuring skulls, the other faculty will report you for Thoughtcrime.
September 27, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Next: if you're not measuring skulls, the other faculty will report you for Thoughtcrime.
Recklessly trashing people's lives is contemptible, especially when the life trashed is that of a public school educator. www.fox6now.com/news/charlie... Note the complete lack of remorse or anything approaching an apology. This is how witch hunts work, folks.
September 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Recklessly trashing people's lives is contemptible, especially when the life trashed is that of a public school educator. www.fox6now.com/news/charlie... Note the complete lack of remorse or anything approaching an apology. This is how witch hunts work, folks.
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
September 7, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.
Nate Silver argues that if it was fine to protest in 2020 because the protests were outdoors and the chance of covid transmission was low, it should have been fine to open the schools. Because we all know that school is also... wait a sec...
September 5, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Nate Silver argues that if it was fine to protest in 2020 because the protests were outdoors and the chance of covid transmission was low, it should have been fine to open the schools. Because we all know that school is also... wait a sec...
From the article. Folks like Wolf have been making this stupid argument for years. 1) The info for parents to make informed decisions about school "choice" is always inadequate 2) Individual taxpayers cant regulate all private schools by themselves, thats why we have a government! And...
August 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM
From the article. Folks like Wolf have been making this stupid argument for years. 1) The info for parents to make informed decisions about school "choice" is always inadequate 2) Individual taxpayers cant regulate all private schools by themselves, thats why we have a government! And...
It's a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social world, we just live in it.
August 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
It's a @nytpitchbot.bsky.social world, we just live in it.
"Prices are way down"
July 31, 2025 at 12:58 PM
"Prices are way down"
My senator shows how it's done: "Kim Fires off a Town Hall Invite to Tom Kean, Jr." www.insidernj.com/kim-fires-of... If you don't know, Kean is a "moderate" GOPer who tacitly enables every awful thing MAGA does, then refuses to meet with residents of his district.
July 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
My senator shows how it's done: "Kim Fires off a Town Hall Invite to Tom Kean, Jr." www.insidernj.com/kim-fires-of... If you don't know, Kean is a "moderate" GOPer who tacitly enables every awful thing MAGA does, then refuses to meet with residents of his district.