The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a timely topic given that today
James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ Spotlight that makes a reasonable and
Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had introduced its Core Curriculum Content
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
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
Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know the size of the gap
As lobbyists heighten their hostility towards standardized tests, the Common Core State Standards are also under attack. Examples: Diane Ravitch, union evangelist, says that the
Here’s my new Newsworks column: On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of No Child Left Behind.
It starts here: The nation’s atwitter about a potential Republican nomination brawl between Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, as well as a posse of Tea
Here’s Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin (also known as “The Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition): The fact is, any parent who opposes adoption of