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Back to School: Englewood Cliffs school chief promises to bring back the basics
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2012
BY REBECCA BAKER
STAFF WRITER
THE RECORD
ENGLEWOOD CLIFFS — Robert Kravitz, the borough’s new school superintendent, said he believes that the problem of low math scores could have a simple three-word solution: parents with flashcards.
“My son, he may not like it, but we do math flash cards every night,” the 42-year-old father of three said. “I’ve heard too many parents making excuses for their children and for themselves. We need involvement.”
Kravitz, 42, a national award-winning principal in Fort Lee, is taking his stripped-down, family-centered vision of education to Englewood Cliffs, an affluent K-8 district with fewer than 500 students already performing well on state standardized tests.
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