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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

New Newsworks Post: Contrary to Recent Reports, Camden Isn’t Using a “Graduation Loophole”

It starts here:On Monday the Courier-Post asserted that Camden Public Schools conceals an “eye-popping” and “unique” percentage of high school…

10 years ago

N.J. Reconsiders the “Harrowing Stresses” of “Data-Driven Education”

On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See…

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

New Data on New Jersey’s Graduation Rate

The big NJ education story today is the release of graduation statistics from the DOE. Coverage from NJ Spotlight (which…

12 years ago

What’s the Impact of Drop-Out Rates on High School Proficiency Scores?

Today’s Trenton Times reports on a recent Trenton School Board meeting at which board members puzzled over seemingly conflicting test…

12 years ago

Trenton Update

According to today's Times of Trenton, the Facility Advisory Board has plans to renovate Trenton Central High School which, according…

13 years ago

Once Again, Willingboro vs. Moorestown

Per tradition, let’s compare the New Jersey School Report Cards of two Burlington County districts, Moorestown and Willingboro, which are…

13 years ago

NJ’s Alternative High School Assessments Dilemma

John Mooney has an important piece today in NJ Spotlight on the decision by Ed. Comm. Cerf and the DOE…

13 years ago

Christie’s “Dubious Educational Policy Decisions”

Bob Braun at the Star-Ledger had a column yesterday that slammed the Christie Administration’s “dubious educational policy decisions made behind…

13 years ago