Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger nails the (il)logic that drives the mismatched pockets of New Jerseyans who deplore new standards and assessments, as well as
New Jersey education news this week is all PARCC all the time. State Legislative committees debated Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan’s two education bills. One would forbid
Lauren McKenna, a white suburban New Jersey mom (and writer for the Atlantic Monthly), analyzes the backlash against the Common Core and aligned standardized tests
Audrey Fisch, an English professor and coordinator of Secondary English Education at New Jersey City University, attended the anti-PARCC meeting in Jersey City on Monday
The Garden State’s anti-testing crowd continues to intensify its opposition to the PARCC assessments and the media is responding this week with a plethora of
Speaking of annual standardized testing, Derrell Bradford, Executive Director NYCAN, describes the bad old days when “states had testing regimens that amounted to spot checking
In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of civil rights leaders and education
Today’s Wall Street Journal features an fiery editorial by Eva Moskowitz, founder of the widely-acclaimed Success Academy Charter Schools, about the “big lie” that NYC
Mashea Ashton, a former special education teacher and head of the Newark Charter School Fund, writes in today’s Star-Ledger that “public charter school sector must
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, schools, and the state