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Education Law Center and Diane Ravitch: Perfect Together

Education Law Center (ELC) is justifiably proud of what it describes as its "decades-long history...to promote fair and equitable school…

9 years ago

Brookings Institute School Choice Correcxtion

Last week the Brookings Institute issued the Education Choice and Competition Index, which ranks 100 school districts on the "ease…

9 years ago

The “Time Loop” of Opposition to the Common Core

In today’s New York Times, Paul Krugman opines that the current GOP presidential contenders represent the “time loop party” who preen…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

N.J. PARCC analyses continue to trickle in. The Star-Ledger reports that  Millburn and Livingston (both on the list of rich…

9 years ago

N.J.’s Opt-Out-of-PARCC-ers Cluster in Wealthy, Privileged Communities

Today’s NJ Spotlight crunches the opt-out PARCC data released recently by the N.J. Department of Education. Anti-testers are irate because…

9 years ago

QOD: The Impact of a Chronically-Failing NYC School

Tenicka Boyd, senior director of organizing at StudentsFirstNY and the mother of a student at PS 321 in Brooklyn, describes…

9 years ago

Bergen County Mom: I Might Have Encouraged My Daughter to take PARCC if I Knew Then What I Know Now

The Record reports today that “PARCC refusals were highest in some of the more affluent and high-achieving districts in Bergen…

9 years ago

What Happens when a Long Island District Liquidates Standards and Accountability?

In a school district in Suffolk County, N.Y., a  revolution against standards and assessments is underway. However, this is not…

9 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

"New Jersey's new standardized tests might not be popular, but they do produce more honest results than the prior exam,…

9 years ago

New York State Teachers Union Goes Wild

From the Albany Times-Union:New York teachers are suing the state over new regulations that allow superintendents to impose improvement plans…

9 years ago