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Chalkbeat
Are teacher prep programs giving elementary teachers the right tools to teach reading?
A new report from the National Council on Teacher Quality finds a glass half full and half empty.
Across Pennsylvania, students help power elections
Each year, high school students serve as poll workers in their communities.
NJ.com
NJ school lunch menu’s ‘demeaning’ Juneteenth image has district leaders furious (MSN.com)
An Essex County school district criticized its new school lunch provider last week for including a racially insensitive watermelon graphic on its cafeteria menu for June 19 — the date of the Juneteenth holiday commemorating the end of slavery.
The elite athletes line up on a dew-soaked field inside the vast sports complex, tuck their shin guards into their powder-blue socks and begin pregame preparations with military precision.
Philadelphia Inquirer
Cherry Hill school board gets pushback on suggestion to drop African American history mandate (MSN.com) The Cherry Hill school board made national headlines when it became the first New Jersey school system to require students to take a course on African American history to graduate.
TAPinto.net
Roselle Park Students Win State STEAM Tank Challenge
Four students at Roselle Park’s Robert Gordon Elementary School were recognized for a big win in the NJ STEAM Tank Challenge.
“Three-Peat” Lenape H.S. Mock Trial Team Honored by Burlington County Bar
Lenape High School’s champion Mock Trial Team was recently honored by its local Bar Association for its achievements this season.
Commissioner Board presents Polytech students with Proclamations for artwork of new coloring & activity book, “Hunterdon County New Jersey Treasures” As momentum builds in the U.S. Semiquincentennial year, and with Independence Day less than a month away, the Hunterdon County Cultural & Heritage Commission is proudly preparing to distribute a new, patriotic-themed coloring and activity book, titled “Hunterdon County New Jersey Treasures.”