Higher Education in New Jersey

Higher Education in New Jersey

Introduction

The higher education of New Jersey serves under the principal with integrated system of higher education which gives a wide range of higher education programs and services. New Jersey institutions for higher education provide more than 3,800 degree as well as certification programs (Gerard, et al., 2011). In view of the researches, about 90 entire programs and 3,500 individual courses are accessible with the help distance learning. During twentieth century, the education in New Jersey continued to modify and develop more efficiently. New Jersey is a diverse state with all kinds of people and many different languages. For the 2009-10 school year, data from the National Center for Education Statistics shows that 66 percent of white and black students in New Jersey should have been moved to another district to achieve racial balance in schools. That figure drops to 64 percent for racial balance among Latinos and whites, according to statistics. The same statistics also show that a black or Latino student average in New Jersey attending a school where 28 percent is white. As a result of these figures, New Jersey is among the 10 most segregated states to look at all the states in the U.S. and the District of Columbia.

The paper aims to explain the system of higher education in New Jersey. Furthermore, the history of the education system along with the major developments is discussed in the paper. Moreover, this paper reveals the key issues and challenges that are faced by the New Jersey education system.

Historical Overview of Higher Education in New Jersey

In New Jersey, Public schools are devoted to provide good quality as well as free education to all students. Today, the state has an efficient education system which is pretty much different and modified from the one which used to be 300 years ago. At that time, education was exclusively tackled by religious institutions and was available to only a privileged few. Among the results of the study are: there was a significant increase in segregation in many districts where desegregation court order was completed, rural school districts and small towns, on average, are more integrated schools in the nation for Blacks and Latinos, but segregation is severe in smaller central cities and in the suburbs of big cities, poverty found in more segregated schools for minorities can be related to unequal educational opportunity (Rothstein, 2012).

By the beginning of nineteenth century, New Jersey was an agricultural state, but the gradual depletion of land forced the residents of the state more and more focused on the development of the industry New Jersey, and that the city of Paterson, often called the cradle of the Industrial Revolution in the U.S. Back in the late eighteen century, was established private company, known as the Society for the development of mineral industry, whose task was to create industry in Paterson (Baker et al., 2010). The place was not chosen by chance, it was here on the Passaic River ...