NEW BRUNSWICK – Gov. Chris Christie has declared October 2011 as “Parental Involvement in Education Month” in New Jersey.
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NEW BRUNSWICK – Gov. Chris Christie has declared October 2011 as “Parental Involvement in Education Month” in New Jersey.
LINDEN - As part of the city's year-long 150th anniversary celebration, Linden will host its 61st Halloween Parade on Sunday, Oct. 30.
EDISON – The Wardlaw-Hartridge School girls’ soccer team is enjoying another impressive season, but this group does some very special things off the field as well. For the third consecutive year, the W-H girls joined their coaches and a group of parents and friends in The Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Run in New York…
SCOTCH PLAINS – Over 40 new and returning Peer Ministers from Union Catholic High School participated in a training day at the Archdiocesan Youth Retreat Center in Kearny.
CLARK -- A special induction meeting was recently held for first year Clark teachers on strategies and techniques for writing successful grant proposals.
EDISON -- A building at Middlesex County College has been named for Billy Johnson, the late great-grandson of Robert Wood Johnson, and a benefactor of education. The building, formerly the Technical Services Center, houses the Department of Engineering Technologies, classrooms, engineering labs, faculty offices, and several administrative offices.
One of the essential components of strong reading ability is a good vocabulary. A student should grow his or her vocabulary over time, but doing so requires regular reading and frequent study of new words. Students with limited vocabularies will struggle as teachers increasingly expect more independent reading -- and school reading becomes more difficult.
STATE – Is a school board member’s personal email address information that the public has a right to access under the New Jersey Open Public Records Act? The New Jersey School Boards Association doesn’t think so, but a taxpayer group disagrees.
CLARK – Three students at Mother Seton Regional High School in Clark have been named Commended Students in the 2012 National Merit Scholarship Program, Sister Regina Martin, principal, announced.
RAHWAY -- Kids love talking about themselves—their likes, their dislikes, and details about everything in between. Angelo Manzanares, a first grader in Mrs. Curcio's class at Roosevelt School in Rahway, wrote a mini-book about his favorite subject…himself !
