Author: Eric Levin
Never Forget
December 19, 2007
Seabrook Educational & Cultural Center
Seen in: Towns & Schools
The Newark Museum’s way creative Director of Science does stuff like bring in Ringling Brothers for hands-on lessons in the physics of juggling and tightrope walking. His Dynamic Earth exhibit takes visitors back to a tectonic era when NJ and Africa were one.
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With all due respect to Humphrey Bogart, a kiss is not just a kiss. On a first date, the timing and placement of that kiss (not to make you nervous or anything) is vital.
Seen in: Jersey Living
Raymond Arthur Abbott, a Camden student, was the first-named plaintiff in the 1981 class-action suit that led to several epochal rulings by the state Supreme Court in the late 1990s.
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Gifted pupils (grades 5-12) from low-income families get extra classes and enrichment in this innovative, privately-funded, 13-year-old program. SEEDS alums have gone on to Choate, Andover, Exeter, Harvard, Yale, and Princeton, among other top schools.
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(1902-1962) Her research for the NAACP helped convince the Supreme Court in 1954 that separate is not equal in education. After graduating from Barringer High School in Newark, Wright became the first African-American woman in the U.S. to earn a Ph.D. in history (from Columbia, in 1940).
Seen in: History, Towns & Schools
Creating “a more rigorous high school experience” is the ambitious mission of a blue-ribbon steering committee co-chaired by Gov. Jon Corzine and Pru CEO Art Ryan. Its recommendations are expected to be sweeping.
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