Honesty Gap

You May Not Like Student Test Results But Here’s How We Know They’re Accurate

Local news media is chock-full of reports on yesterday's long-delayed release from the Murphy Administration's Department of Education of last…

2 years ago

Dear Gov. Murphy & Education Department: You Won’t Fix Learning Loss By Hiding Test Data

This is an editorial from the Star-Ledger Editorial Board. Although New Jersey is at the top of national rankings for…

2 years ago

New Jersey Currently Stands as One of Only Two States in The Country That Has Not Publicly Released Test Scores

Today Paula White, Executive Director of JerseyCAN, will testify before New Jersey’s Joint Committee on Public Schools regarding the urgent…

2 years ago

Murphy’s Education Department Is Holding Student Learning Data Hostage from Parents, Teachers, and Schools

Yesterday we reported that New Jersey students, according to the highly-regarded NAEP tests, have suffered steeper drops in math and…

2 years ago

Repollet Demands the State BOE Take The 64 Floor Statewide and Reveals His Inner Trump.

Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet is angry. Yesterday the State Board of Education postponed a vote to approve his plan to…

5 years ago

Gov. Murphy Promised NJEA He’d “Get Rid of PARCC Day One.” Not So Fast, Say Those Who Value Honest Representations of Student Proficiency and School Quality.

Last week New Jersey Education Commissioner Lamont Repollet presented a  proposal to the State Board of Education to reduce the…

6 years ago

This NJ Spotlight Op-Ed is Wrong.

Scott Taylor, the superintendent of the Highland Park school district, has an op-ed in today’s NJ Spotlight that argues that…

6 years ago

The Star-Ledger Gets the Story Right But The Headline Wrong.

Don't blame that inconsistency on journalist Adam Clark:  typically writers have no control over headlines. Nonetheless, he's stuck with the…

6 years ago

How do PARCC Tests Match Up with “Gold Standard” Assessments?

New Jersey is celebrating its national dominance in academic achievement. The new National Assessment of Educational Progress scores (NAEP) just…

7 years ago

New Jersey Skated by for Years on Misleading Graduation Rates, But Now We’re Closing the “Honesty Gap”

Does it seem odd to you that we’re celebrating the fact that half of New Jersey’s third-graders are at or…

7 years ago