The Star-Ledger reports that a record 9,500 students in New Jersey declined vaccinations in the 2015-16 school year, according to the state health department. That’s
Princeton High School students sure do love their Advanced Placement courses. According to New Jersey D.O.E. data, last year 97.3% of students there signed up
Last week I looked at the how differences in state-level leadership, teacher unions, and parent advocacy may have affected New York and New Jersey’s “opt-out
Charles Cole at the Huffington Post: I remember graduating being in the top 10 percentile throughout high school. I remember having As and Bs, thinking
Opt Out Long Island is jubilantly tweeting about soaring test refusal rates on the North Fork. the peninsula on the northeast part of Suffolk County.
Today at The 74 Bill Bennett suggests that the opt-out movement in New York is driven solely by teacher union leaders and allies who have
New York and New Jersey are neighbors, but you’d never know it, at least judging by disparities in their anti-testing movements. Today EdWeek quotes N.Y.
It starts here: Here’s Donald Trump, America’s likely Republican presidential nominee, describing his vision of the federal role in public education: I’m not cutting services,
At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students did not sit for the
In a school district in Suffolk County, N.Y., a revolution against standards and assessments is underway. However, this is not your typical vignette of white