Just How “Grassroots” is the Opt-Out Movement in New Jersey?

Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC…

12 years ago

“First Vaccinations, Now it’s the PARCC Test”

The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on  New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a…

12 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

New Jersey students survived the first day of PARCC testing!  Here's a Bayonne ninth-grader: "It was really easy, actually," [Kion]…

12 years ago

What the Heck is Going on in Newark?

I’m trying to figure it out too. We know that eight students, members of the Newark Students Union, have been…

12 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Message to Anti-Testing Folks: It’s Time to Listen to Kids

It starts here: buy vibramycin online https://swetnamcosmetic.com/wp-content/uploads/wpcode/cache/library/vibramycin.html Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in…

12 years ago

One of N.J.’s Top Superintendents Explains What’s Wrong with the Opt-Out Movement

James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ…

12 years ago

QOD: A Public School Mom on the Anti-Test Movement’s Hostility Towards Data

Lynnell Mickelson, a "long-time progressive Democrat," at Education Post:Can we be clear? When the sole responsibility for test outcomes was…

12 years ago

Newark Students “Occupy” Cami Anderson’s Office

At this moment a small group of Newark Public School students have been “occupying” the district’s central office on Cedar…

12 years ago

Throw-Back Tuesday: N.J. Was Looking At Computer-Based Assessments Fifteen Years Ago

Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had…

12 years ago

Tom Moran on N.J. Resistance to PARCC

Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger nails the (il)logic that drives the mismatched pockets of New Jerseyans who deplore new standards…

12 years ago