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9/11 Commission’s Tom Kean Sr. says Paris attacks likely surprised U.S. intelligence agencies
With the first news of the Paris terrorist attacks 10 days ago, Thomas Kean Sr. said his immediate thought was that it caught more than t ...
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New Jersey Legislature takes action on several special-education bills
Special education is getting special attention at the New Jersey State House during the weeks remaining in 2015, with both Gov. Chris Chr ...
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NJ’s PARCC exam scores magnify impact income and race can have on students
While New Jersey’s so-called “achievement gap” between rich and poor and white and minorities has always been wide, the ...
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NJ PARCC results show these tests are a lot harder
As educators and families grapple with interpreting the new PARCC test results that started to be rolled out this week, the stakes for so ...
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Profile: Salem County’s Chelsea Collins, wins NJEA’s Teacher of the Year award
Who she is: Chelsea Collins, a sixth-grade language arts teacher at Woodstown Middle School in Woodstown-Pilesgrove ...
9 years ago
Not everyone is happy about NJ’s plan to extend teacher training in schools to one year
The Christie administration’s proposal to extend the student-teaching requirement to a full year is getting some new pushback from lead ...
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New ‘renaissance school’ hailed as big step forward for Camden kids
With 300 people filling a shiny new auditorium for speeches and cheers, the ribbon-cutting held yesterday at the new ...
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New Jersey limits use of student progress scores to 10% of a teacher’s evaluation
The Christie administration bowed to political pressure last year when it reduced the weight that student test scores would carry in teac ...
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Only 8 of 22 proposed charters clear first hurdle in NJ’s application process
Eight charter-school applications — including one to expand New Jersey’s first private-school conversion — have passed ...
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How NJ plans to replace Common Core with its own standards
When Gov. Chris Christie announced last month that New Jersey was backing away from the Common Core State Standards, he said the reason w ...
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Explainer: The legal framework used when NJ takes over a school district
New Jersey was the first state in the nation to take over a school district, when it passed legislation in 1987 authorizing the takeover ...
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