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Call It What You Want, Common Core is Here to Stay

Today's Washington Examiner article, entitled "Tide Shifting Against Common Core," is a great illustration of  the failure of journalists to…

9 years ago

StudentsFirstNY Calls for “Independent Audit” of NYC Schools’ “Massive Grade Inflation”

From "The Hidden Truth: Massive Grade Inflation Conceals Underperformance in NYC Schools":To hear Mayor Bill de Blasio tell it, New…

10 years ago

Newsflash: New York Student Anxiety During Common Core tests Stems from Teachers and Parents, Not Tests Themselves

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10 years ago

MA Replaces PARCC with PARCC: Tea Party and Teacher Unions Cheer

Today’s New York Times features a doomsday article on the demise of the PARCC assessments aligned with the Common Core…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

N.J. school districts will have access to student PARCC results tomorrow morning. See the Star-Ledger, NJ Spotlight, and the Asbury Park…

10 years ago

Some (Muted) Applause for the NCLB/ESEA Rewrite

Many Americans probably chuckle in agreement when hearing that old Mark Twain quip, “suppose you were an idiot, and suppose…

10 years ago

QOD: Students Benefitted from Bloomberg’s Strategy of Closing Failing High Schools

From PoliticoPro:The closures of struggling New York City high schools yielded benefits for middle schoolers who might otherwise have enrolled…

10 years ago

“We Won’t Have Any More Money”

That's Lakewood Board of Education President Ada Gonzalez upon hearing that the bids from bussing companies to transport Orthodox Jewish…

10 years ago

What did Albert Shanker Really Think about Standardized Testing?

From his speech to the National Press Club, March 31st, 1988, Washington, D.C.: online pharmacy buy strattera no prescription I…

10 years ago

New York State Teacher Union and Opt-Out Lobbyist Call it: Mission of Opt-Outers Isn’t Over-Testing Students But Protecting Teachers

According to NPR, Education Commissioner Mary Ellen Elia is "hoping to contain a movement that led 20 percent of students…

10 years ago