Education

"Top-ranked schools succeed in three main areas: exceeding expectations on state proficiency tests, offering challenging coursework and graduating their students" ~ Anita Narayan, managing editor of Education at U.S. News

"Top-ranked schools succeed in three main areas: exceeding expectations on state proficiency tests, offering challenging coursework and graduating their students" ~ Anita Narayan, managing editor of Education at U.S. News

In a recent article, Patch ranked the most educated towns in New Jersey ....based on population with graduate degrees. We took the info and broke it down to the Top Ten here in Ocean and Monmouth Counties. Seven in the Top Ten from Monmouth and three from Ocean. Check out the list and see if your town made the Top Ten?

Already passed by the State Senate, Bill (699) was passed this week by the State Assembly and will now go to Governor Murphy's desk for his signature. The bill allows certain students including undocumented immigrants who meet certain criteria to qualify for New Jersey student financial aid for College.

As you have probably heard by now, Governor Murphy wants FREE education. Not only for College, but also for Pre-Kindergarten. Now YOU can have two different views on this. One could be that this is great and will help families and is an investment in our future, while on the other hand YOU may ask .... ...

The ranking was based on student and parent ratings of teachers, teacher salaries, teacher absenteeism, teacher tenure, student-teacher ratio, and the Niche Academics Grade for the district.

In a recent PATCH article, the latest average SAT scores were released for High Schools throughout New Jersey. We decided to brake it down and give you the Top 10 here in Ocean and Monmouth Counties. How do YOU feel about the SAT's ? ...

Did you know that Monmouth County has it's very own Museum? That's right and it's appropriately called the Monmouth Museum. The Museum is located on the campus of beautiful Brookdale Community College in Lincroft. Curre...

Here are the TOP 10 Highest (Median) Teacher Salaries in Ocean & Monmouth Counties. The data was recently released in a Patch article with numbers from the New Jersey Department of Education's Taxpayer's Guide to Education Spending. Check o...

More than half of New Jersey’s kids are not ready for college based on the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test ~ David Hespe, New Jersey’s Commissioner of Education   The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers test.... aka t...