"In New Jersey, Magnets Give Suburban Schools a Race" (NYTimes, 02/06/09)

In the state’s annual School Report Cards released last week, the county magnet schools once again dominated almost every high school category for 2007-8, with its students acing the state’s graduation test.

"Schools Won’t Require Online Class. Yet." (NYTimes, 01/30/09)

NEW JERSEY education officials are working on an ambitious redesign of the state’s public high schools that is intended to better prepare students for college and the work force in the 21st century. The redesign had called for every student — not just those who are college bound — to study Algebra II, laboratory sciences and foreign languages, pass more state tests and complete at least one online course in order to graduate. But education officials recently backed away from the online requirement because of concerns over the cost and whether such courses would meet state standards.