common core

Note to PARCC-Bashers: Annual Testing Won’t “Resegregate Schools”

In New Jersey, where education reform disputes seem especially shrill, the focus has been all-things-PARCC. Readers know where I stand:…

10 years ago

Montclair Teacher Scheduled AP Review Session During PARCC Test; Parent Fights Back

Montclair Public Schools has one of the highest PARCC opt-out rates in the state and it appears that  the boycott…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: Christie’s Toast But He Can Still Advance Education Initiatives

Let’s make it official: Chris Christie is toast. As our defamed and diminished governor lurches back towards Jersey, his only…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: How Can We Make Peace with PARCC?

It starts here:New Jersey has administered annual standardized tests peacefully for 15 years, but this year’s spring ritual was scarred…

10 years ago

The Stakes on “High-Stakes Tests” are Actually Pretty Low

I think the stakes are either overstated or understated depending on which side of the argument you’re on. Both sides…

10 years ago

Blacks, Latinos, and Jews Support N.Y.’s Common Core-based Annual Assessments; Suburban and Upstate Whites Don’t

Joseph Spector at the Democrat & Chronicle analyzes some New York opt-out numbers based on a poll from Siena College.By a…

10 years ago

“Movements are moral.” Opting-out Isn’t.

A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in…

10 years ago

Bizarro Christie Moment

According to the Wall Street Journal, presidential hopeful Chris Christie told the editorial board of the New Hampshire Union Leader…

10 years ago

Pearson, PARCC, and the N.J. D.O.E.

Amid all the mythology about PARCC tests – teachers will  be fired! students won’t graduate! the tests cost too much!…

10 years ago

True Confessions

While my husband and I were waiting for "Portlandia" to queue up on the roku last night, I happened to…

10 years ago