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Remote learning creates opportunities but reveals digital divide for students
Teachers are developing innovative ways to bring lessons to their students at home. One teacher turned his basement into a remote studio for a virtual tour through New Jersey’s Underground Railroad. ...
NJ focusing day care on the children of those on the COVID-19 front lines
Gov. Phil Murphy has delayed closing child care centers until this week, concerned that it would leave essential workers without child care. A new executive order requires all child care centers to ...
Sweeney: Federal stimulus package a bad deal for New Jersey
The Senate president says Jersey needs more help than other states not as hard hit by the coronavirus pandemic.
Mercer County College’s plan to help faculty and students in need
Dr. Jianping Wang detailed some of the steps that Mercer County College is taking to help support faculty and students during the coronavirus outbreak.
Charter schools give out laptops so students can learn at home
KIPP charter schools handed out 2,000 laptops to parents for home schooling. Teachers collected them from classrooms after a survey found more than half of the 4,800 students needed laptops. KIPP says ...
Amid COVID-19 Crisis, NJ Seeks Pass on Student Test Requirement
Governor also says he is unsure how long schools will remain closed in favor of remote learning
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School closures especially hard for parents of kids with special needs
The sudden closure of schools left children with disabilities without the many services they depend on every day, and leaving their parents to fill the gaps. That challenge is only multiplied for ...
Making Sure NJ’s Special-Needs Students Are Served During School Closures
In-depth Q&A with Peggy McDonald, assistant commissioner for student services, director of oversight of special education for state’s 2,500 public schools
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Just the FAQs: What the State DOE Is Telling Schools About COVID-19
The NJ Department of Education has been busy issuing guidance on numerous ways schools need to meet challenges of coronavirus epidemic
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Learning About Teaching Anew in a Suddenly Changed World
With schools closed by the coronavirus restrictions, the NJEA puts extensive guidance online, fielding questions as they arise
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Students gear up for online learning, meal pick-ups as NJ schools close down
New Jersey's 1.4 school kids prepped laptops and homework papers to participate in remote learning, as classrooms across the state shut down.
School Districts Plan and Prepare for Wednesday’s Statewide Shutdown
Commissioner Repollet confident transfer to distance learning will be made on time, while students in free breakfast, lunch programs won’t miss a meal
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Officials: Long-term school closures inevitable
Although kids seem to be more resistant to the novel coronavirus, health experts say shutdowns can be an effective means for containing the spread.
Across NJ, educators prepare for virtual teaching if COVID-19 closes schools
At the urging of state officials, educators across New Jersey are making preparations to continue instruction amid the COVID-19 outbreak, which on Monday showed signs of broadening, with an uptick in ...
Princeton school sets out to find effect of pushing back start time
One New Jersey school is experimenting with a later start time to improve student health.
