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Camden Superintendent “Holds His Team and Himself Accountable to the Community”

From yesterday's press release from Camden Public Schools:February 2, 2015 — Office of the Superintendent, Camden, NJ – Superintendent Rouhanifard…

10 years ago

QOD: Diane Ravitch on National Standards and Annual Standardized Assessments

Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know…

10 years ago

How the Anti-Standardized Testing Movement is Like the Anti-Vaccine Movement

Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC…

10 years ago

A High School Teacher and Her Students Reflect on the Common Core

As lobbyists heighten their hostility towards standardized tests, the Common Core State Standards are also under attack. Examples: Diane Ravitch,…

10 years ago

Sunday Leftovers

NJ Spotlight reports on Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s bill that would mandate opt-out testing procedures. More on that this week. Here's…

10 years ago

QOD: Bob Braun Rebuts NJEA and SOS-NJ’s Claim that PARCC Tests are High Stakes for Students

Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and SOS-NJ’s Anti-PARCC Campaign Has Nothing to do with Kids

It starts here:The politics of standardized testing has kicked into overdrive in New Jersey. Last Friday the “Study Commission on…

10 years ago

N.J.’s Teacher Pension System Gets a “C”

The National Council on Teacher Quality just released its state-by-state rankings of teacher pension systems, and N.J.'s is mediocre. We…

10 years ago

QOD: Teacher Unions Are Alienating “Blue-State Democrats”

I have little affection for Reason, a publication that sings the anthem of "free minds and free markets," but this…

10 years ago

N.J. Reconsiders the “Harrowing Stresses” of “Data-Driven Education”

On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See…

10 years ago