PARCC

MA PARCC Update: “Nat’l Media Has Inaccurately Described MA as ‘Abandoning the Common Core and PARCC'”

On Sunday the New York Times featured an article on the demise of the Common Core and PARCC assessments in…

9 years ago

Call It What You Want, Common Core is Here to Stay

Today's Washington Examiner article, entitled "Tide Shifting Against Common Core," is a great illustration of  the failure of journalists to…

9 years ago

MA Replaces PARCC with PARCC: Tea Party and Teacher Unions Cheer

Today’s New York Times features a doomsday article on the demise of the PARCC assessments aligned with the Common Core…

9 years ago

New Jersey Demystifies PARCC Assessments

Here's New Jersey Asst. State Education Commissioner Bari Erlichson:By making these test questions public, teachers can see how their students'…

9 years ago

New Assessment Results Prove Our Schools Need to Change, So What’s Next?

Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called "The Emperor's New Clothes," we’re all agape as results on…

9 years ago

From a PBS Fan: Don’t Check Your Journalistic Integrity at the Door

Let me state this for the record: I love PBS.  But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist…

9 years ago

N.J. PARCC Drill-Down: Reality Hurts and Common Core Works

The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s first PARCC results yesterday afternoon. No surprises here: student proficiency scores…

9 years ago

Education Law Center Files Complaint about DOE Bureaucracy; Can We Talk About Kids?

The members of New Jersey’s “review” of the Common Core State Standards are faced with a thankless task: fussing over…

9 years ago

The Myth of the “Overstressed American Teen”

Remember that movie "Race to Nowhere" where students are bullwhipped by mountains of schoolwork, tests, and stress, while their teachers…

9 years ago

Why We Need a Suburban Middle-Class Version of Education Reform

Here's my new NJ Spotlight piece:Are we being over-optimistic when it comes to how well NJ’s middle-class students are being…

9 years ago