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New Newsworks Column: How Annual Standardized Testing Reveals Achievement Gaps

NJEA‏@NJEBasking Ridge former BOE member calls for grade span testing (rather than every grade) and sampling like @NAEP_NCES. #NoPARCCingThis tweet represents…

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Camden Renaissance School Grandma Praises Mastery for its Support of Her Autistic Granddaughter

Sheila Seaberry, grandmother of a seven-year-old girl with autism, describes how Mastery’s North Camden renaissance school worked with her “precious…

10 years ago

QOD: Erika Sanzi on “What Happened to “Do Your Best?”

Via Education Post:In watching parents across the nation opt their children out of standardized testing, I am left wondering why…

10 years ago

Save Our Schools-NJ to Parents on PARCC Boycotts: Don’t Worry, Be Happy. Or Not.

Here's Alex Russo this morning:As opt-out numbers grow, Arne Duncan says feds may have to step in ChalkbeatNY: On Tuesday,…

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Upper-Class Suburbia and Its Discontents with PARCC

Laura McKenna, author of the recent Atlantic article “What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test? “ (April 9th), describes…

10 years ago

Are Teacher Unions in a “Terrible Situation” or in the Catbird Seat on Standardized Testing Issues?

“The teachers’ unions are in a terrible situation,” he said, “because on the one hand they want to argue that…

10 years ago

“Movements are moral.” Opting-out Isn’t.

A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in…

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QOD: A Former Newark Public Schools Student to Assembly: Pull the Charter Moratorium Bill

Ron Rice Jr., a former Newark Public Schools student,  Newark city councilman, and current senior director of government relations at…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

N.J. schools ace technology requirements of PARCC, reports NJ Spotlight:As controversial as the new PARCC tests continue to be, the…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and the Heritage Foundation: Perfect Together

It starts here:Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child…

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