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Dear Commons Community, I have just finished reading The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools by Dale Russakoff (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015). His partners, then-Newark … There was, as Russakoff demonstrates, a fundamental reluctance to engage with the parents of Newark in any serious or sustained way. "The Prize: Who’s in Charge of America’s Schools” author Dale Russakoff discussed the $100 million donation that was made by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg towards Newark … families had a child (or children?)

Dale Russakoff’s The Prize is one of the most discussed books on education policy in recent memory. It’s a prize that, for generations, has enriched seemingly everyone, except Newark’s children. Distinguished Leadership Award.

The Prize explains why Newark families had such contradictory feelings towards charter schools.

Rutgers Business School Alumni Association Prize. Related: At Newark school striving for turnaround, a 12-year-old’s fragile success. The Prize gives us three very important warnings: First, education reform can be undermined by failing to engage seriously with the community in question. Many (or most?) Q: What is the significance of the title “The Prize”? In 2010, 26-year-old Mark Zuckerberg announced on The Oprah Winfrey Show that he was donating $100 million to Newark public schools. (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, June 05, 1909, LAST EDITION, Page 7, Image 7, brought to you by Rutgers University Libraries, and … The Newark star and Newark advertiser. I learned early on that people who had been in Newark for generations talked about the Newark school district budget as the prize. Anderson praises “The Prize” for spotlighting Newark families but it “ignored critical pieces of the puzzle No city has captured the public imagination about the promise and pitfalls of the modern education reform movement quite like Newark, New Jersey. Russakoff tells the story of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s $100 million donation toward education “reform” in Newark, NJ, and the subsequent changes in the city’s schools. A: “The Prize” ended up having many meanings to me. Newark Unified School District has undergone a massive overhaul in the nine years since Booker sat on a couch with Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and then-New Jersey Gov. It is a candid, well-researched examination of the school reform effort in Newark, New Jersey that failed to live up to its hype.

Kareen Angarita.

Published in Print: November 4, 2015, as The Real 'Prize' in Newark Schools Related Stories “Newark Schools' Journey to Local Control Begins,” September 9, 2015. who would benefit from a transfer from a neighborhood school to a charter. This prize is given each year to the member of the Rutgers Business School Undergraduate-Newark Program who has shown the greatest achievement in both scholastic and extracurricular activities.

Chris Christie (R) on the Oprah Winfrey Show and famously promised to turn Newark …