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Major, David W. – Teacher Magazine, 2002
Describes the work of Storytelling Arts Inc, a nonprofit group that sends storytellers into New Jersey schools to spin age-old yarns and encourage young children and their teachers to speak their mind. The nonprofit's main goal is to inspire low income children to master the language arts. Teachers note that storytelling helps students with their…
Descriptors: Creative Teaching, Elementary Education, High Risk Students, Language Arts
Download full textCouncil of the Great City Schools, 2007
The Newark Public Schools (NPS) has been at the center of reform and improvement efforts in New Jersey for the better part of 12 years. The results of these efforts are both significant and frustrating. The school district has made substantial progress over the last few years; but it also has a long way to go before it attains the level of…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Public Schools, Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains
Achieve, Inc., 2004
High school graduation exams are in place in nearly half the states, and more than half the nation's high school students have to pass them to earn a diploma. After a detailed analysis of the mathematics and English language arts exams in Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio and Texas, Achieve reached three conclusions: (1) Tests are…
Descriptors: High Schools, Graduation, High School Graduates, Exit Examinations
Goodson, Veronica Bilocur; McCart, Connie L. – 1986
This report describes the Prescriptions for Better Writing Program, a 9-week writing skills curriculum, suitable for seventh to ninth grade levels, developed by teachers in New Jersey's Lower Camden County's Regional High School District No. 1. The program was designed for two purposes: to remediate to ninth grade levels and designed for two…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Language Arts, Program Guides, Teacher Developed Materials
Giordano, Tina – 1997
A study examined the past home environment (prior to kindergarten entrance) of 26 students currently in grade 2. Subjects were selected from the population of second graders who participated in the district-wide First Grade Reading/Language Arts Assessment Test when they were in the first grade in an elementary school in central New Jersey.…
Descriptors: Early Experience, Emergent Literacy, Family Environment, Family Literacy
White-Stevens, Lillian – 1977
This catalogue describes thirty-two education programs developed by the State Department of Education of New Jersey. They include programs that improve basic skills in mathematics and language arts, offer career education and guidance, enrich curricula, enhance classrooms, school, and district administration, and are designed to raise the levels…
Descriptors: Adapted Physical Education, Career Education, Curriculum Development, Demonstration Programs
DeMauro, Gerald E. – 1981
The status of New Jersey school districts' evaluation and reporting network of compensatory education programs is surveyed. The procedures involved in the analysis are explained, and the results are interpreted. The reported analyses compared actual student growth to growth that could be expected without Basic Skills Improvement (BSI) program…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Basic Skills, Comparative Analysis, Compensatory Education
Johnston, Christine; Stanley, Christine, Ed. – 1986
Designed to engage the learner in active learning while allowing for different degrees of guidance, this workbook represents an innovative approach to the instruction of Early American literature. The Personal Literacy Jackdaw workbook provides reading, writing, and speaking activities to help the tenth/eleventh grade language arts student develop…
Descriptors: Class Activities, English Instruction, Grade 10, Grade 11
Weehawken Board of Education, NJ. – 1974
This document is a teachers' resource manual, grades Kindergarten through Twelve, for the promotion of students' facility in written composition in the context of a language-experience approach and through the use of diagnostic-prescriptive techniques derived from modern linguistic theory. The "Individualized Language Arts: Diagnosis,…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis, Educational Resources
Anand, Bernadette; Fine, Michelle; Perkins, Tiffany; Surrey, David S. – 2002
When students in a New Jersey public middle school decided to learn about their community's history of desegregation through a unique language arts and social studies project, no one imagined how powerful the experience would be for everyone involved. In addition to researching newspaper articles and historical documents, the students conducted…
Descriptors: Activism, Blacks, Heritage Education, Language Arts
Carl, David L. – 1970
Project Mobilization was a program designed to discover relevant materials and procedures for stimulating interest and motivation in educationally disadvantaged suburban youth. In the Union County Regional High School District No. 1, New Jersey, 15 percent of students were found to be "educationally disadvantaged." Preliminary steps in…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Educationally Disadvantaged, Grade 10, Grade 11
Amodeo, Janis – 1987
This report describes the PlayWrite Program, which was developed in the Montville Township School District, New Jersey, to encourage children in grades K-6 to write. The primary objectives of the program are to increase students' motivation to write; to improve their writing skills through the process of brainstorming, composing, revising, and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education, Instructional Materials
Hess, Karin K. – 1990
The New Jersey State Department of Education administers a Gifted Education Exemplary and Demonstration Grant Program in which successful applicants are awarded grant funds to enable them to prepare materials for dissemination to teachers of the gifted statewide. This document presents profiles of the 35 programs selected for 1987-88, 1988-89, and…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Elementary Secondary Education, Enrichment Activities, Gifted
Siegel, Dorothy – American Education, 1979
Describes the Weehawken, New Jersey, individualized language arts program to develop better ways of teaching writing and composition through diagnosing student writing needs, using prescriptive teaching techniques, and evaluating student progress. Validated by the Office of Education, the program has spread across the country. (MF)
Descriptors: Diagnostic Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, English Education, Expository Writing
Kelly, Judith Ann – 1995
Gender attitudes are usually viewed as products of the socialization process and therefore may be viewed as modifiable behaviors. Of great practical importance is the discovery of how they are formed, how they are organized in the mind, and how they may be changed. A study attempted to determine if exposing middle school students to…
Descriptors: Attitude Measures, Grade 7, Junior High School Students, Junior High Schools
