The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a…
James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ…
Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had…
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger nails the (il)logic that drives the mismatched pockets of New Jerseyans who deplore new standards…
The Garden State’s anti-testing crowd continues to intensify its opposition to the PARCC assessments and the media is responding this…
Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know…
As lobbyists heighten their hostility towards standardized tests, the Common Core State Standards are also under attack. Examples: Diane Ravitch,…
Here's my new Newsworks column:On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of…
It starts here:The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as…
Here’s Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin (also known as “The Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition):The fact is, any parent…