PARCC

Parent Threatens to Sue N.J. over PARCC Testing: Can We All Get a Grip?

"I will sue New Jersey Department of Education," said Veronica Mehno, a parent from West Windsor. "I will sue them…

9 years ago

What’s Should a High School Diploma Be Worth? N.J. Apologists and Anti-PARCC-ers Say “Not Much”

In today’s NJ Spotlight, Mark Weber, ally of NJEA, Save Our Schools-NJ, Education Law Center, and doctoral student of Bruce…

9 years ago

N.J.’s Opt-Out-of-PARCC-ers Cluster in Wealthy, Privileged Communities

Today’s NJ Spotlight crunches the opt-out PARCC data released recently by the N.J. Department of Education. Anti-testers are irate because…

9 years ago

Bergen County Mom: I Might Have Encouraged My Daughter to take PARCC if I Knew Then What I Know Now

The Record reports today that “PARCC refusals were highest in some of the more affluent and high-achieving districts in Bergen…

9 years ago

When Local School Boards Get it Right: Marlboro Reduces Local Testing and Values PARCC

It’s so easy to hate your local school board. Trust me on this: I’ve been a school board member for…

9 years ago

Special Ed Teachers Crushed by Data? Don’t Opt Out!

NPR reported this past weekend that 40 out of 50 states are having trouble finding special education teachers teachers and…

9 years ago

QOD: N.J. Teacher of the Year Explains Why Our Kids Need Common Core-aligned PARCC Tests

Maryann Woods-Murphy, New Jersey's 2010 Teacher of the Year, explains how the National Network of State Teachers of the Year…

9 years ago

Camden Public Schools’ Accountability Scores Reveal Honesty and Leadership

Yesterday’s Philadelphia Inquirer looks at the grim PARCC  results in Camden: 6% proficiency in language arts and 4% proficiency in…

9 years ago

Camden Releases PARCC Scores and District Accountability Ratings

At Tuesday night’s Camden School Board meeting, Superintendent Paymon Rouhanifard and Deputy Superintendent Katrina McCombs released school-by-school PARCC scores. The…

9 years ago

N.J. PARCC Scores: All Our Kids are Above Average (well, mostly)

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s PARCC scores yesterday and the results were good and, in fact,…

9 years ago