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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub.com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Volume: 1; Original Published by: Lippincott in 1877 in 428 pages; Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / General; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Biography & Autobiography / Women; Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs; Education / Higher; ... Read more

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Updated to reflect the most recent exams, this manual helps to prepare eighth graders in New Jersey for the required Language Arts Literacy exam. It presents instruction and advice for writing speculative compositions and persuasive essays. It also presents practice and review for answering the exam's multiple-choice and open-ended questions, and concludes with two full-length practice exams with answer keys. ... Read more

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This is a story about what happens when a state education department partners with city school districts in an attempt to close the achievement gap between poor, minority city students and their counterparts in the predominantly white and more affluent suburban districts. It is set in New Jersey, but the lessons apply in any American city that has concentrations of poor children in failing school districts. What sets New Jersey apart is the generous level of court-mandated funding available, and the fact that preschool in the state begins at age three. A preliminary look at the results of New Jersey's expensive efforts resulting from the landmark New Jersey Supreme Court case Abbott v. Burke suggests an unsurprising conclusion: when additional funds are concentrated on supporting and enhancing teachers' efforts to assess the needs of their students and tailor their instruction to those needs, dramatically better results are possible. If no coherent plan for improved classroom instruction is implemented, more money makes no difference, and can, instead, produce confusion and declining performance.New Jersey has demonstrated remarkable success in improving children's educational attainment-for example, only in Massachusetts did fourth graders score higher than those in New Jersey, a much more diverse state, on the 2007 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test. And, remarkably, New Jersey was the only state in which scores in all ethnic categories improved over 2005. It is Gordon MacInnes' contention that New Jersey's fairly dramatic improvement is a product of a focused effort by many of the state's poorest school districts to introduce effective early literacy practices. No one is better equipped to tell the story of New Jersey's success in closing the achievement gap than MacInnes, and his remarkably frank and comprehensive examination of those districts where poor, minority students demonstrated continued academic improvement provides invaluable lessons for improving the academic prospects for all. ... Read more

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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Character; Education / Higher; Education / Students ... Read more

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process.We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Piscataway School Board v. Taxman, 91 F.3d 1547 (3d Cir. 1996) was a racial discrimination case begun in 1989. The school board of Piscataway, New Jersey needed to eliminate a teaching position from a high schools Business Education department. Under New Jersey state law, tenured teachers have to be laid off in reverse order of seniority. The newest tenured teachers, Sharon Taxman and Debra Williams, white and African-American respectively, had started working at the school on the same day. In the interest of maintaining racial diversity (Williams was the only black teacher in the department, and 50% of the students were minorities), the school board voted to lay off Taxman. Taxman complained to the EEOC, saying that the board had violated Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! ColumbiaHigh School is a four-year comprehensiveregional public high school located at 17 ParkerAvenue in Maplewood, New Jersey, which servesstudents in grades nine through twelve within theSouth Orange-Maplewood School District, whichincludes Maplewood and South Orange Townships. ... Read more

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Reprint of John Maclean's 1877 History of the College of New Jersey ( Princeton University)Volume 1 of 2. Search "Nassau-Hall" for more titles! Maclean was Tenth President. This highly recommended history of the founding, purpose, and corporate life of what is now Princeton University. Originally chartered as the "College of New Jersey". Drawing on ancient spiritual traditions,Princeton was much more than a school, it was a substantial "nursery" for the expansion of education into Theology combined withScience, and for the high drama of the Experiment in Self-Rule" known as the American Revolution, the blessings of which we still enjoy today. The lists of all the graduates and the multitude of high government offices they held makes this a "must read" for anyone studying American government. After all, the original purpose was, according to Richard Stockton, to "Prepare youth for public service to Church and State"[ pg 253 ]. Hebrew, Greek, and Latin all taught to this end. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woodrow Wilson High School is a four-year public high school in Camden, in Camden County, New Jersey, United States, serving students in ninth through twelfth grades as part of the Camden City Public Schools. As of the 2006-2007 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,336 students and 126 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.6. The school was the 315th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was also ranked 315th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rutgers University in Newark is one of three campuses of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the eighth oldest college in the United States and a member of the Association of American Universities. Rutgers University, Newark, officially came into existence in 1946, when the New Jersey State Legislature voted to make the University of Newark part of Rutgers University. The roots of Rutgers University, Newark, however, date back to 1908 when the New Jersey Law School first opened its doors. That law school, along with four other educational institutions in Newark ? Dana College, the Newark Institute of Arts & Sciences, the Seth Boyden School of Business, and the Mercer Beasley School of Law ? formed a series of alliances over the years. A final merger in 1936 resulted in the establishment of the University of Newark. A decade later, Rutgers University in Newark was founded. ... Read more

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Throughout the 1980's, Mr. Skirbst composed nearly 400articles entitled the Tales and Trails of New Jersey.¿ These articles appeared as a weekly columnin a local newspaper, The Star Gazette.¿Over twenty years later, selected articles from this series have cometogether, through the work of his wife and children, to create this book incelebration of the author's 75th birthday.The contents of the book are arranged topically, not in theorder they originally appeared.¿ It hasbeen divided into 4 units and 18 chapters.¿The first unit explores the physical geography of the state of NewJersey.¿ People, and their contributionsto the state's culture, are explored in the second unit.¿ The state's history, from pre-Colonialtimes, is fully explored in the third.¿The fourth and final unit, entitled "Potpourri," discusses the diversityof the state."Tales and Trails," although emphasizing the places, people,and past of New Jersey, is certainly relevant to the nation as a whole.¿ New Jersey has, in fact, provided majorcontributions to the nation.¿ Betweenhistorical events and famous people, "Tales and Trails" is a significantcontribution to those that seek to learn more about the nation's history, andfuture. ... Read more

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Jersey City. New Jersey, 2000 United States Census, Bergen, New Netherland, Fire Department of Jersey City, New York metropolitan area, Timeline of Jersey City area railroads, Hudson River Waterfront Walkway, Hackensack RiverWalk, List of mayors of Jersey City, List of people from Jersey City, New Jersey, New Jersey, St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church (Jersey City, New Jersey), Gateway Region, Gold Coast (New Jersey), Bergen Township, New Jersey (1893- 1902), Chilltow ... Read more

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2001 Anthrax Attacks. 2003 ricin letters, Anthrax, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Domestic terrorism in the United States, Timeline of the 2001 anthrax attacks in New York and New Jersey, 9/11 conspiracy theories ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishings Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the worlds literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Woodbridge High School is a four-year comprehensive public high school located in Woodbridge Township, New Jersey, as part of the Woodbridge Township School District. The high school is one of three in the district, together with Colonia High School and John F. Kennedy Memorial High School. As of the 2006-07 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,819 students and 143 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 12.7. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Saint Peter's College is a private, coeducational Roman Catholic college in the United States. Located in Jersey City, New Jersey, it was founded in 1872 by the Society of Jesus. Today, Saint Peter's College is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. Saint Peter's College offers over 33 majors to more than 3,200 undergraduate and 500 graduate students. Its college mascot is the Peacock (the women's sports teams are called the Peahens), and its sports teams play in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, of which it is a founding member. ... Read more