Show #17
Initial Air Dates:
Monday, April 18 at 6:30 pm
Saturday, April 23 at 7 am

Highly Qualified – Eileen Aviss-Spedding, with the New Jersey Department of Education, will explain how the state is working hard to help teachers meet the new federal requirements in the No Child Left Behind Act. Thomas Moore, the president of the Trenton Education Association, shares the challenges that Trenton school employees face in meeting those new requirements.

World Languages – The High Technology High School, a career academy of the Monmouth County Vocational School district, is being recognized for its outstanding world language program. See how the students master the languages of Spanish, French and Latin.

Middle College – Imagine a public school where high school students and teachers can receive undergraduate credits. Emerson Jr. Sr. High School teacher Clifford Brooks focuses on Italian and Islamic studies while his students earn college credit.

Ocean Night – A month-long program on marine sciences culminates with an Ocean Night for students and parents from Pohatcong Township Elementary School. This school in Phillipsburg may not be located on the ocean, but their understanding of marine sciences earned this school the title of MARE New School of the Year.