(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Higher-level algebra may be a trouble spot, data suggest, while most students in lower grades fail to hit reading mark
(AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)Higher-level algebra may be a trouble spot, data suggest, while most students in lower grades fail to hit reading mark
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Controversial Common Core education requirements delayed. Stop-and-frisk data in Newark. Is the practice practical or profiling? The multi-billion dollar economic engine called Port Newark is ...

Gov. Christie has ordered the creation of a nine-member study commission, tasked with looking at the state's standardized testing.

The Bridgegate committee. Where is it going after their big loss in court? Credit downgrade. Will New Jersey’s problems cost you more money? And testing ...

All New Jersey schools must be ready to administer tests online in 2015, but some have started trying out the practice ahead of the deadline.

New questions and complaints about the way Sandy aid was distributed. Red light cameras under fire amid accusations of bribery. And a former executive says ...

New Jersey's new teacher tenure law includes changes to evaluations. Student test scores are now included and tenure can be revoked if a teacher gets ...

A new turn in the long battle over affordable housing. Plus, Cory Booker under fire for his online activities. And the judge who quit his ...

Newark Superintendent Cami Anderson says teachers are vital to the education system and was glad the top teachers could be rewarded monetarily.

The Obama administration talks attacking Syria and we have reaction from Sen. Chiesa. Plus, the governor sees some protesters down the shore. And Democrats get ...

New Jersey Association of School Administration Executive Director Richard Bozza says the state is raising the bar for students and moving toward online standardized tests.

They're taking sides. New Jersey's biggest political names making their endorsements in the Senate. We'll tell you who's backing whom. Plus, furloughs for thousands of ...

The state's largest teachers union will have a new executive director. Edward Richardson succeeds Vincent Giordano as the head of the NJEA.