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West Essex Middle School Students Make Lunches for New York City Homeless
May 21, 2013NORTH CALDWELL, NJ - West Essex Middle School students spent the afternoon of April 23 helping the homeless by making them lunch. T...
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District Art Festival
May 6, 2013SCOTCH PLAINS/FANWOOD, NJ - The Scotch Plains-Fanwood School District held a District Art Festival at the Scotch Plains Fanwood High S...
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West Essex High School Students Learn the Physics of Roller Coasters
April 24, 2013NORTH CALDWELL, NJ - "Life is a Beach," "Finding Nemo," and "Candyland" were just a few of the themes...
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Essex County Honor Band Performs at West Essex High School
April 22, 2013NORTH CALDWELL, NJ - Some of the finest high school student musicians in Essex County spent a full day rehearsing music at West E...
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Why Algebra?
April 18, 2013When are we going to use algebra? On Wednesday, April 17, Mark Love, a civil engineer, conducted a workshop for a group of Hilltop...
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Washington School Third Grade Community Service
March 5, 2013Third grade students at Washington School in Summit recently completed a community service project to benefit the Community Food Bank&...
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FREE GED Test Prep Program Expands with New State Grant: Multiple Class Dates and Locations Announced
February 7, 2013Literacy Volunteers of Union County is expanding its Free GED Test Prep Program through a new state "Literacy4Jersey" grant ...
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Over $10,000 of Food Raised in High School Contest!
July 5, 2012If you are in high school and June is approaching, you’re thinking about all the things you need to get done before the summer s...
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Chatham High School v Mendham High School Food Drive Contest Half Time Report
June 14, 2012When Tim Lonergan of Chatham High School and Brendan Lewis of Mendham High School wanted to help the hungry before school closed for t...
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TBA Early School Field Day Awesome Outdoor Fun
June 1, 2012On a recent morning when the air was cool, breezy and humidity-free, the K-Ready students of The Early School of Temple B’...
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Parent Asks For A Return To High Standards And Common Decency In Schools
February 15, 2012Some of you may be aware of a controversial book that has parents concerned in Westfield. This book, The Absolutely True Diary of a Pa...
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MHS Student Wins Film Fest Logo Contest
November 7, 2011The Education Foundation of Millburn-Short Hills has chosen the winning logo for the Millburn Film Fest. Jake Oleson, a junior a...
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Former Yemen Ambassador Alsaidi to Speak at FDU’s Metropolitan Campus
October 17, 2011The former Yemeni Ambassador to the U.N., Abdullah Alsaidi, will present on “The Arab Spring and its Impact” on Tuesday, N...
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Former Pakistan President Musharraf to Appear at Drew
October 14, 2011The 2011/12 Drew Forum series, which marks the tenth anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, will feature Pervez Musharraf,...
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Scholarship Essay Contest; One Year of Free Music, Art or Dance Classes
October 13, 2011To celebrate our 10th Anniversary and to support music and art in local communities, the Do-Re-Mi School of M...
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Hilltopper Weekend and Friday Night Lights
October 12, 2011HILLTOPPER WEEKEND & FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS YOU WON'T WANT TO MISS THE EXCITEMENT AS THE LIG...
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Charter School Funding: An Extension of a Dictatorship or a Democracy?
May 10, 2011New Jersey’s Acting Education Commissioner Christopher Cerf, while testifying before the State Senate Budget Committee on Monday...
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PSAT Scores have Arrived; Now Establish the Test –taking Plan that will Work Best
December 14, 2010Since all High School Juniors take the PSAT together and get their scores together, it may seem that they all take the SAT, SAT II&rsq...
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Five Strategies for Dealing with Bullying
October 10, 2010October is National Bullying Prevention Month. The goal of this event is to unite communities nationwide to raise awareness of bullyin...