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SUMMARY: Every Hoboken charter school scored above the state average in 2016 Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and in Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics;  Every Hoboken charter school scored above every Hoboken Traditional Public School on 2016 in Grade 3 PARCC Language Arts and in Grade 3 PARCC Mathematics exam.  R esults for the 2016 New Jersey State Testing (PARCC) were released recently and are available on the New Jersey Department of Education website . I thought it would be interesting to look at how all of the public schools in Hoboken are doing at the early grades level in Mathematics and in Language Arts. Grade 3 is the earliest fully tested grade so I decided to look at that grade ( for Grade 5 Results CLICK HERE ). All 6 Hoboken public schools are included in the analysis including the 3 traditional public schools (Calabro, Connors, and Wallace) as well as the 3 public (free) charter schools (Hola, Elysian, and Hoboken Charter).  Grade 3 was also selected because these stude...

Proposed American Legion Development- Hoboken, NJ  SUMMARY: Every Hoboken charter school scored above the state average for the 2016 Grade 5 PARCC Language Arts and for Grade 5 PARCC Mathematics; Every Hoboken charter school scored above every Hoboken Traditional Public School on 2016 Grade 5 PARCC Language Arts and for Grade 5 PARCC Mathematics exam; Every Traditional Hoboken Public School scored below the state average in Grade 5 PARCC Language Arts and for Grade 5 PARCC Mathematics exam. R esults for the 2016 New Jersey State Testing (PARCC) were released recently and are available on the  New Jersey Department of Education website . I thought it would be interesting to look at how all of the public schools in Hoboken are doing at the early grades level in Mathematics and in Language Arts. Grade 5 is a very important grade and curriculum becomes increasingly discipline specific. All 6 Hoboken public schools are included in the analysis including the 3 traditional public sc...

Ms. Mary Tremitiedi Mary Catherine Tremitiedi, age 66, retired school administrator, a longtime resident of Hoboken NJ, passed away Saturday August 26th 2017. Visiting hours will be on Tuesday, Aug. 29th 2- 4 pm and 7- 9 pm at the Failla -McKnight Memorial Home, 533 Willow Ave, Hoboken NJ. Valet parking available in rear of memorial home off Sixth Street.  A funeral Mass will be held at 10 am on Wednesday, August 30th at St. Francis R.C. Church in Hoboken at 10 AM. Interment will be at Holy Cross Cemetery in North Arlington NJ.  Born in Hoboken NJ, Mary was a daughter of Joseph and Catherine Lisa. She earned her Bachelor and Masters Degrees at Jersey City State College. She served the Hoboken School District for 38 years as a Teacher, Vice Principal, Principal, and Administrative Assistant to the Superintendent of Schools and retired in 2010. Mary came out of retirement to serve as Principal of Holy Family Academy preparatory school for young women.  During her Career, Ma...

The following is the full agenda for the August 22, 2017 meeting of the Hoboken Board of Education. Tuesday, August 22, 2017 AGENDA HOBOKEN BOARD OF EDUCATION 158 FOURTH STREET, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030 (MEETING HELD IN DEMAREST AUDITORIUM, 158 FOURTH STREET, HOBOKEN, NJ 07030) 7:00 P.M.    August 22 2017 HBOE Full Agenda by Anthony Petrosino on Scribd

Recently, the Hoboken Dual Language Charter School ("HoLa") was ranked the 2nd Best Elementary School in Hudson County NJ by Niche. HoLa is a free, public charter school where students attend for no cost- it is a free public elementary school. In existence only since 2011, HoLa has quickly gained city, state and regional recognition as being a model dual language school as well as delivering excellence in K-6 subject matter in all disciplines. In addition to HoLa being ranked 2nd in Hudson County,  Elysian Charter School was ranked the 3rd Best Elementary School in Hudson County and the Hoboken Charter School was ranked 11th Best Elementary School in Hudson County. No traditional Hoboken Public School finished higher than any of Hoboken's charter elementary schools in Niche's rankings .  The Hoboken Dual Language School was also ranked the 6th top Elementary Charter School in all of New Jersey and among New Jersey's top 15% of Best Public Elementary Schools (Publ...

Niche is a small company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. It is a team with a unique blend of data scientists, engineers, parents, and “ yinzers ” who are passionate about helping you discover the schools and neighborhoods that are right for you. Recently their 2018 rankings were released and offer some interesting and objective 3rd party independent appraisal of local school districts. In this case, we take a look at the Hoboken Public School District in Hoboken, New Jersey . For instance, the Hoboken School District received an overall rating of C+ ( click here for Methodology on how school and district grades are derived ) and we find that about 29% of the students are proficient in Reading and 22% of the students are proficient in Math as measured by NJ state testing. The average SAT score is 1010 ( SAT User Percentile- National: 36% ). The district has a very diverse student body and enjoys a 14:1 Student-Teacher ratio. According to Niche, the  district spends approximately...

Dr. Constance Steinkuehler Can students and teachers learn from computer games and gaming? Many people say yes-- but sometimes parents and policymakers who wield influence in how education is funded, built, or enacted need more convincing. My colleague Constance Steinkuehler is a professor at the informatics department at the University of California, Irvine (and who formerly was a games advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy) offered 10 studies that all skeptics—and anyone talking to them—should read and reference. -Dr. Petrosino 1. Research conducted by SRI and commissioned by GlassLab found that kids playing educational games showed a 23 percent gain over their peers learning via traditional materials. 2. Cooperative play can also lead to higher gains, according to a 2013 meta-analysis ( PDF ) in the Journal of Educational Psychology. “Collaborative play outperforms individual play by over two standard deviations,” says Steinkuehler. 3. The most effec...