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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…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

New Jersey education news this week is all PARCC all the time.  State Legislative committees debated Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s two…

10 years ago

A Suburban Parent (and Journalist) Explains Why Suburban Parents Are Rallying Against PARCC Tests

Lauren McKenna, a white suburban New Jersey mom (and writer for the Atlantic Monthly), analyzes the backlash against the Common…

10 years ago

A N.J. Education Professor Reflects on Parent and Teacher Anxiety about PARCC Tests

Audrey Fisch, an English professor and coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University, attended the anti-PARCC meeting…

10 years ago

New Jersey PARCC Update

The Garden State’s anti-testing crowd continues to intensify its opposition to the PARCC assessments and the media is responding  this…

10 years ago

QOD: Annual Standardized Testing and Doctor’s Visits: Doing Right by Kids

Speaking of annual standardized testing, Derrell Bradford, Executive Director NYCAN,  describes the bad old days when "states had testing regimens…

10 years ago

Civil Rights Leaders Plead with Congress to Maintain Annual Standardized Testing

In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of…

10 years ago

Eva Moskowitz, Union Leaders, and Special Education

Today's  Wall Street Journal features an fiery editorial by Eva Moskowitz, founder of the widely-acclaimed Success Academy Charter Schools, about…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

Mashea Ashton, a former special education teacher and head of the Newark Charter School Fund, writes in today’s Star-Ledger that…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: N.J.’s Anti-Testing Bill is Really About Teacher Tenure

It starts here:New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan's (D-South Plainfield)  new opt-out-of-testing proposal, A-4165, guts the ability of parents, teachers,…

10 years ago