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Ridgewood NJ, at Monday Ridgewood Board of Education meeting , Board members interviewed ten candidates as possible replacements for Trustee Christina Krause .
The Board interviewed the following candidates for the vacant seat: The interviews may be seen in the webcast of the Board meeting.
Continue reading Ridgewood Board of Education Interviews Candidates
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Ridgewood NJ, As more than 1.4 million students across New Jersey return to school next week, the State Division of Highway Traffic Safety and the New Jersey Department of Education are calling on motorists and students to be extra vigilant on the roadways and obey traffic laws, especially in school zones and along school bus routes.
The first weeks of school can be the most dangerous time on the road for students as they acclimate to rising early and crossing busy streets, and as motorists adjust to sharing the road with school buses.
Continue reading Attorney General Gurbir S. Grewal,“The safe passage of students to and from school is a responsibility we all share”
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Ridgewood NJ, the ugly reality is that America devotes more resources to higher education than other high-income countries . For about half of the approximately 2 million high school graduates that will enroll this fall in a quest for a four-year degree, and college for many will prove a lousy investment both for the nation and those students who will emerge heavily in debt.
The guiding premise beneath federal student loan programs beginning with the 1958 National Defense Education Act is that college is a good investment. For the nation, a better-prepared labor force increases productivity, and for students, because graduates earn better pay.
Continue reading Growing Skills Gap in College Grads
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Ridgewood NJ, summer is quickly winding down and the 2019-2020 school year is about to start:
Continue reading Welcome to the 2019-2020 Ridgewood School Year
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Ridgewood NJ, NICHE put together a list of the 2020 Best School Districts ranking is based on rigorous analysis of academic and student life data from the U.S. Department of Education along with test scores, college data, and ratings collected from millions of Niche users.
Continue reading Ridgewood Schools Ranked in the Top 25 Statewide
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Ridgewood NJ, Every year during the 4th of July parade in Ridgewood, NJ local schools compete to have the best float in the parade. This year, Travell Elementary has a connected component to its float, a free AppStore app for your iPhone or iPad.
Continue reading Travell Elementary Has An App for the Ridgewood 4th of July Parade
The Ridgewood News Superintendent’s Corner June 2019 by Daniel Fishbein, Ed.D.
Congratulations to the Class of 2019!
The following column appeared in The Ridgewood News on June 21, 2019.
On Thursday, June 20, Ridgewood High School graduated the Class of 2019. Following are the superintendent’s remarks at the commencement ceremony.
Continue reading Happy Summer! Read Dr. Fishbein’s remarks to the RHS Class of 2019 at graduation
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Ridgewood NJ, at the Monday Ridgewood Board of Education meeting The proposed extra credit policy was reviewed .
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Ridgewood NJ, on Wednesday, May 29th, musicians from the Ridgewood High School Orchestra and Percussion Ensemble performed chamber works by Haydn, Dvorak, Smetana, Zivkovic, and more. The performance was followed by a short tour of the iconic Center.
The James Rose Center for Landscape Architectural Research and Design offered a special thanks for the Ridgewood High School Students who helped make Strings and Sticks a success! Check out our website to see a short clip of a quartette perform Bendrich Smentana’s From My Life.
I have about a decade before my eldest needs to take some college admissions test, so hopefully this social justice nonsense would lose steam by then.
Fact: kids bear no responsibility to how much time and $ their parents invested in them. Therefore penalising their hard-earned test taking labour is a wrong approach.
Fact: ppl will cheat like mad. Everyone has a Cousin Billy in some shittown whose address they can cite on SAT application to bump up their scores.
Continue reading Reader says , I have about a decade before my eldest needs to take some college admissions test, so hopefully this social justice nonsense would lose steam “