NJ Education News:
Announcing the Teachers of the Year by county.
Why NJ’s schools need to accelerate (not remediate) learning after more than a year of remote instruction.
Mandatory masks. Crowded cafeterias. Classrooms full of unvaccinated elementary school students and no options for remote learning, can kids skip a year?
Four-year investigation by U.S. Department of Justice leads to agreement spelling out needed corrections in district with 7,000 students with limited English proficiency
Other State/National Education News:
After a spring of universal Zoom school, the country diverged: some administrators, parents, and scientists were determined to get kids back in classrooms, while others prioritized COVID-19 safety above all else.
Seven-year-old Catalina Mendez is pictured on Aug. 19, her first day of second grade at Prairie Park Elementary School in Lawrence, Kansas. On Monday, her whole class was sent home to quarantine because a boy tested positive for COVID-19.
Companies like Outschool have made online tutoring more accessible, and schools are starting to embrace them as options to fill in pandemic gaps.
