NJEA@NJE Basking Ridge former BOE member calls for grade span testing (rather than every grade) and sampling like @NAEP_NCES. #NoPARCCing This tweet represents NJEA’s campaign to
Sheila Seaberry, grandmother of a seven-year-old girl with autism, describes how Mastery’s North Camden renaissance school worked with her “precious grandbaby Taliana”: [S]even months ago,
Via Education Post: In watching parents across the nation opt their children out of standardized testing, I am left wondering why they have changed course
Here’s Alex Russo this morning: As opt-out numbers grow, Arne Duncan says feds may have to step in ChalkbeatNY: On Tuesday, when asked whether states
Laura McKenna, author of the recent Atlantic article “What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test? “ (April 9th), describes herself as a typical New
“The teachers’ unions are in a terrible situation,” he said, “because on the one hand they want to argue that expectations are too high. But
A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in “Painting Education the Whitest Shade
Ron Rice Jr., a former Newark Public Schools student, Newark city councilman, and current senior director of government relations at the National Alliance for Public
N.J. schools ace technology requirements of PARCC, reports NJ Spotlight: As controversial as the new PARCC tests continue to be, the technology behind the state’s
It starts here: Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child Left Behind, titled the