Education
Public school students in grades Kindergarten through 12 attend the Westwood Regional School District, a comprehensive regional school district serving students from both the Township of Washington and Westwood Borough. Schools in the district (with 2009-10 enrollment data from the National Center for Education Statistics) are four K-5 elementary schools (most were K-4 until Fall 2010) — Berkeley Avenue Elementary School (250 students; was K-4), Brookside Elementary School (418; was 5&6), Jessie F. George Elementary School (309; was K-4), Ketler Elementary School (314; was K-4, now defunct) and Washington Elementary School (257; was K-4) — Westwood Regional Middle School (grades 6 and 7, opened in Fall 2010) and Westwood Regional High School (1,179; 8-12, was 7-12).
Immaculate Heart Academy is a parochial, college preparatory, all-girls Catholic high school located on Van Emburgh Avenue, operating under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark.
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“What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“A good education ought to help people to become both more receptive to and more discriminating about the world: seeing, feeling, and understanding more, yet sorting the pertinent from the irrelevant with an ever finer touch, increasingly able to integrate what they see and to make meaning of it in ways that enhance their ability to go on growing.”
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“Casting an eye on the education of children, from whence I can make a judgment of my own, I observe they are instructed in religious matters before they can reason about them, and consequently that all such instruction is nothing else but filling the tender mind of a child with prejudices.”
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