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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…

9 years ago

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

From the Union and Sun Journal:ALBANY (AP) — A survey of school psychologists in New York suggests the statewide English…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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…

9 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.:I like tests, and I even like standardized…

9 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…

9 years ago