common core

Media Coverage of N.J. Ed. Comm. David Hespe’s Hearing Before Senate Judiciary Committee

Yesterday afternoon the N.J. Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved Acting Education Commissioner David Hespe as Chris Cerf’s permanent replacement.  Media…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: A Local NJEA Unit’s Distorted Attacks on PARCC Testing

It starts here:Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a "massive position statement" detailing…

10 years ago

QOD: How do most African-Americans and Latinos Feel about the Common Core?

Max Marchitello at the progressive Center for American Progress:[A]mong African Americans and Latinos, support for the Common Core has been…

10 years ago

The Daily Record on Common Core and PARCC: “Get a Horse”

Yesterday The Daily Record published an editorial that slams both the Common Core State Standards and the tests aligned with…

10 years ago

QOD: Badass Teachers Looking a Few Good Men

I’ve written about the Badass Teachers Association (BAT) before, this rebel outpost of the national teachers unions, specifically its challenges to…

10 years ago

New WHYY Newsworks Post: Conference Assesses Common Core Roll-Out in N.J.

It starts here:On Tuesday morning the New Jersey School Choice and Education Reform Alliance (NJSCERA) held a statewide conference on…

10 years ago

A Math Teacher Describes the Impact of Common Core on Her Classroom

Before Common Core I was a typical math teacher.  I had my curriculum maps and and state standards which read…

10 years ago

New N.J. Family column: Four Key Facts About the Common Core

It starts here:There’s clearly not much that Louis C.K. likes about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), and he’s hardly…

10 years ago

New Newsworks column: Newark’s School Reform Battle is Taking a Toll on its Union

 Last week I wrote here about a legal dispute in Camden: twenty-five local residents, backed by several statewide anti-charter groups,…

10 years ago

New Spotlight column: What we forget about Abbott v. Burke

 It start here: Next month marks the 25th anniversary of the oral arguments over New Jersey’s most important public education…

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