Academic Growth in Orange NJ and its Neighbors

I will post material here on how much students in the public schools in Orange NJ--the inner suburb of Newark that I have lived in since 2019--show academic growth year to year.  Often, I will compare growth by students in Orange to growth by students in the neighboring school districts--South Orange/Maplewood, Montclair, East Orange, West Orange, Newark, and Glen Ridge. Why am I starting this blog?   I believe it's important for people considering where to live and send their children to school to be aware of the facts on how much improvement children in my community of Orange and its neighbors show in their academic skills from year to year. I believe that negative stereotypes of Orange and other public school districts with large numbers of African-American and Hispanic students and small numbers of white and Asian-American students are powerful. I further believe that the availability of student growth data allows parents and others to see whether those stereotypes are true or