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Just How White is Opt-Out?

Opt Out Long Island is jubilantly tweeting about soaring test refusal rates on the North Fork. the peninsula on the…

9 years ago

What Bill Bennett Got Wrong and Right About New York’s Opt-Out Movement and Teacher Unions

Today at The 74 Bill Bennett suggests that the opt-out movement in New York is driven solely by  teacher union…

9 years ago

Comparing NY and NJ’s Opt-Out Fever

New York and New Jersey are neighbors, but you’d never know it, at least judging by disparities in their anti-testing…

9 years ago

Deconstructing Hillary Clinton’s Education Reform Agenda

I’ll be honest: until I read this Newsday interview with Hillary Clinton where she said that she would opt her…

9 years ago

How Far Will Teacher Union Leaders Go to Undermine Standardized Testing?

On Monday night South Brunswick parents were invited to an event called “The PARCC and Your Rights as Parents.” Free…

9 years ago

QOD: NYS Regents Chancellor off to an “Unprofessional Start”

From the Buffalo News;It doesn’t augur well for excellence when the new chancellor of the state Board of Regents all…

9 years ago

Is Refusing Tests Just Like Fighting for Abolition and Marriage Equality?

At Public School 321 in Park Slope, Brooklyn, part of District 15, more than a third of the eligible students…

9 years ago

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa Suggests Poverty is Destiny; Has She Gone Too Far?

New Regents Chancellor Betty Rosa, queen of the opt-out movement in New York State and heroine to teacher union leaders,…

9 years ago

Long Island Moms “Opt Out and Shop Out!”

OMG. This is so cool. Newsday reports today that “opponents of Common Core testing plan an ‘Opt Out, Shop Out’event…

9 years ago

QOD: “Opting Out Hits the Hardest on Families That Can Absorb it the Least” and is the “Wrong Choice for Our Kids”

Charles F. Coleman Jr., a civil rights attorney and former Brooklyn, NY prosecutor, explains why opting out of standardized state…

9 years ago