Social Skills are Special Skills

Making sure that special ed students receive an academic education is usually the goal of teachers, but one group has realized that social skills are special skills.  They’ve made it their goal to learn and understand how to get along with each other and...

Questions of Effectiveness for Anti Bullying Programs

Questions of effectiveness for anti bullying programs were highlighted as schools across New Jersey this week posted self-assessed anti bullying scores. The scores, which ranged from a low of 46 in Camden schools to a near perfect 73 in the Medford School District,...

Learning to Play Nice

In some schools academics aren’t enough of a lesson, and learning to play nice is part of the curriculum. If public schools were grocery stores, their shelves would be stocked with the three R’s and ABCs. Math? Aisle 3. History? Against the back wall....