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Fenster, Mark J. – 1998
The National Science Foundation's Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) program attempted to address concerns about student performance in science, mathematics, and technology education. The SSIs were supposed to increase and improve student learning in these areas by having challenging academic standards, a hands-on approach to instruction, the use…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Technology, Equal Education
Ponessa, Joan M. – Public Affairs Focus, 1991
The numbers of students receiving a high school diploma in New Jersey and differences in graduation rates for males and females and for minority and non-minority students are examined. Conclusions are based on graduation totals reported by the school districts. In the country as a whole, 71% of all students receive a high school diploma by age 18…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Dropout Research, Dropouts, Enrollment
O'Shea, Mark R. – 2002
This study examined whether New Jersey students of elementary teachers trained in the use of standards-aligned curriculum materials and the nature of standards themselves would submit standards-meeting work after they were taught the standards-aligned activities. Two urban districts received funding to train teachers to meet the new science…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, College School Cooperation, Elementary Education, Faculty Development
Hill, Djanna A.; Gillette, Maureen D. – Multicultural Perspectives, 2005
Paterson Teachers for Tomorrow (PT4T) is a collaborative project between the Paterson, NJ Public Schools and the College of Education at William Paterson University of New Jersey (WPUNJ), created to attract talented high school students from Paterson to careers in teaching, prepare them to be effective teaching professionals, and return them to…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Partnerships in Education, College School Cooperation
Hill-Brisbane, Djanna; Easley-Mosby, Kenya – Online Yearbook of Urban Learning, Teaching, and Research, 2006
One of the greatest challenges for the Unites States as a nation, and for Paterson, NJ in particular, is how to attract and retain academically and pedagogically talented teachers for urban schools--teachers who are committed to remain in those schools to do the difficult, long-term work of reform and renewal. This work is critical if urban…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Change Agents, Educational Change, Data Analysis
D'Amico, Joseph J.; Corcoran, Thomas B. – 1985
The impact of testing and promotion standards on students in urban schools was discussed by urban school superintendents from New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Pointing to research that suggests that standards alone are not enough to boost achievement, many educators recommend coupling more rigorous standards with appropriate remedial programs, staff…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Curriculum Development, Dropouts
Medrich, Elliot A.; Rubin, Victor – 1983
This analysis is the first in a series of seven reports on the ways that the urban fiscal crisis has affected children. It discusses the issue in general, and provides an overview of the other reports. Over the past 100 years, all levels of government have developed public services responsible for the health, education, protection and physical and…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Economic Research
Abbott Bulletin, 1998
This document consists of the six issues of the "Abbott Bulletin" published during 1998. The "Abbott Bulletin" is a one-page per issue newsletter that reports on developments in response to a set of rulings by the New Jersey Supreme Court in the Abbott v. Burke case. In its fifth ruling in the Abbott case in May 1998, the Court…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Early Childhood Education, Educational Facilities, Educational Improvement
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. Div. of General Academic Education. – 1989
The names of the county, school, principal, district, and superintendent; address; phone number; grades served; and number of students are provided for each of the 50 award recipients of the City Schools of Excellence Grant Program in New Jersey. These New Jersey schools are engaging in a thorough and intensive program of schoolwide improvement.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Curriculum Development, Directories, Educational Environment
Mizell, Hayes – Middle School Journal (J3), 2005
Many school systems have so much difficulty when it comes to educating students between the ages of 12 and 15. There seems to be perennial dissatisfaction with how public schools educate these "young adolescents." The grade configurations of schools varied, but the dominant pattern was eight years of primary school followed by four years…
Descriptors: Grouping (Instructional Purposes), Middle Schools, High Schools, Junior High Schools
Saint Joseph School, Trenton, NJ. – 1980
Project ACCENT (Ascertaining Critical Career Education Needs in Trenton) had three objectives: (1) to determine career awareness needs of students in grades 5-8 in the non-public, inner-city, Trenton (New Jersey) schools; (2) to involve students, parents, and faculties in the evaluation of the students' career awareness; and (3) to evaluate…
Descriptors: Career Awareness, Career Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Grade 5
Thomas, Earl Preston – 1979
Despite the New Jersey Public School Education Act of 1975, Jersey City remains one of the poorest municipalities in New Jersey in terms of per capita property wealth, and this is having a negative effect on its educational system. Even though the new law increased State aid to public education, conditions in Jersey City have worsened. Educational…
Descriptors: Court Litigation, Educational Change, Educational Finance, Educationally Disadvantaged

Ellis, John – Equity and Excellence, 1993
Presents the statement of the state Commissioner of Education before the New Jersey Senate Education Committee in defense of increased funding to urban school districts provided by the Quality Education Act. Argues that state legislators have a moral obligation and legal duty to see poor school districts properly funded. (SLD)
Descriptors: Access to Education, Administrator Attitudes, Disadvantaged Youth, Economically Disadvantaged
New Jersey State Dept. of Education, Trenton. – 1985
This booklet describes a number of activities initiated in the State of New Jersey to improve academic standards and to help teachers prepare their students for taking New Jersey's High School Proficiency Test (HSPT). The HSPT, administered to all public school ninth graders, is more demanding than the previously used Minimum Basic Skills Test.…
Descriptors: Basic Skills, Grade 9, Graduation Requirements, High School Graduates
D'Amico, Joseph J.; Corcoran, Thomas B. – 1985
Urban school superintendents from Pennsylvania and New Jersey met to consider issues related to the improvement of urban secondary schools. Although the public is pessimistic about all urban public schools, it regards secondary schools with particular pessimism. There are 70 urban high schools in New Jersey and 81 in Pennsylvania. Superintendents…
Descriptors: Administrator Attitudes, Educational Environment, Educational Policy, Educational Quality