Marie Corfield

Mother, artist, teacher, education activist, former NJ State Legislature candidate, that teacher in that Chris Christie You Tube video, writing about education, poverty, politics, women's issues, social justice and living in a world gone strange.

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Friday, January 1, 2016

NJ's literacy solution: longer school day for kindergarteners?

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My blog has been quiet of late. Due to some health problems, I've had to scale back a bit on my workload. Nothing life-threatening, mind...

Saturday, September 12, 2015

Debunking Reformy Logic One Tweet At A Time Part 3

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This one's personal As I reported in Part 1 of this series, I recently got into a Twitter debate with Laura Waters, Derrell Bradfor...

Tuesday, July 14, 2015

One Parent Investigates #OneNewark

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This is what parents in the state controlled Newark Public School District must resort to now that their children's democratic right to...

Thursday, July 9, 2015

Newark Public Schools: Frying Pan to Fire

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As part of an agreement reached between Newark Mayor Ras Baraka and Gov. Christie to return local control of the city's public schools,...

Thursday, June 25, 2015

NJ FY16 budget: education death by a thousand cuts

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In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. On June 30th, Gov...

Saturday, May 30, 2015

This Week in Weird (Ed Reform) NJ—Part 2

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This is a real publication Holy moly! Just when I thought ed 'reform' in the Garden State couldn't get any weirder , all th...

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