1.4 million New Jersey students return to school this year
SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, 12:24 PM LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2014, 7:58 PM
BY HANNAN ADELY
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
HACKENSACK — Around 1.4 million New Jersey students returned to school this week in what is expected to be a year of transition for both students and staff.
Schools continue to apply academic standards in the classroom that the state adopted in 2010 and to prepare for new tests based on those standards. They are also using new methods to evaluate teachers.
Photos: First day of school in Bergen, Passaic counties
While schools braced for changes by training teachers, upgrading technology and writing lesson plans, students were making their own choices for the first day: what to wear to school and pack in their bags.
Priyansh Saha, a third grader at the Nellie K. Parker School in Hackensack, chose his clothes and school supplies on his own and had everything ready for school days ago, said his mother, Priyanka Saha.
“We’re very excited,” Priyanka Saha said. “We hope he will learn a lot through the year.”
Saha said she expected this year to be more challenging for her son. “If he works hard he will get better in everything, whatever challenges he faces,” she said.
Maribel Breton said she also expected her son, Adonis, will have to study more in third grade. “He has to learn to read and write perfectly,” she said.
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