Jersey Jazzman (aka Mark Weber) just celebrated his first 10 years as a blogger.
He explains that he started blogging because he was so outraged by Chris Christie’s constant attacks on teachers, unions, and public schools.
Along the way, he decided that he needed to upgrade his skills and analytical ability, so he earned a doctorate at Rutgers University.
It has been my pleasure to post many of JJ’s blogs, which have been consistently honest, thoughtful, and rigorous (in the best sense of the word).
By telling the truth, JJ became a leader of the Resistance.
Happy BlogDecadeDay, JJ!
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Happy Decade of Blogging, Jersey Jazzman! Thank you for your good work.
LikeLike
Congratulations Mark. And thanks for being a stong voice on behalf of arts education.
LikeLiked by 1 person
yes
LikeLike
Thank you for all your efforts on behalf of public schools. You are a valuable part of the resistance, and your skills are very much need as the disrupters churn out fake news, studies and reports. We need analysts that can debunk the lies, methodological flaws, and false assumptions and assertions so common in various dispatches from those seeking to privatize our public schools.
LikeLike
Thank you, JJ/MW, for your outstanding blog!!! Looking forward to the next ten years!
LikeLike
As a retired NJ teacher, I have to say that those Christy years were deplorable, horrible. Christy was/is a much smarter version of the current maniac-in-chief but just as nasty, crude, vicious and bloviating. Now Christy is a talking head TV “pundit” spreading the GOP BS garbage and bilge. Christy was expert at pitting the general public against the unionized public school teachers. He often portrayed teachers as greedy, selfish and thuggish, he attacked the NJEA on an almost daily basis.
Thanks to JJ for fighting the good fight and his analysis of education in NJ.
LikeLike
Mark Weber a/k/a Jersey Jazzman, researcher and blogger extraordinaire, where one can count on a factual counterpoint to the ed blatherings of the Star-Ledger. One of the stars in our firmament, he makes me as the radio station says, “Not NY… Not Philadelphia… Proud to be New Jersey.”
LikeLike
Thanks, Diane, and for all you do on behalf of public education.
LikeLike
I have ben writing a blog for several years, but am not sure of the number. I will check it now.
Joanne Yatvin
LikeLike