Laura McKenna, author of the recent Atlantic article “What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test? “ (April 9th), describes…
“The teachers’ unions are in a terrible situation,” he said, “because on the one hand they want to argue that…
A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in…
What looks like a victory to some parents may soon backfire in their faces. The anti-PARCC hysteria that's torn through…
New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight. (Here's additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and…
It starts here:Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child…
Today Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports on the first day of PARCC [correction: NYS students don't take PARCC,…
This concerted effort by national civil rights groups to include annual standardized testing in a newly-authorized NCLB/ESEA bill (current title: Every…
Andy Rotherham has a great piece up at US News on the opt-out “movement.” Clear-headed as always, he notes that…
It starts here:Upholding ethical principles in Trenton’s State House is no game for wimps. Legislators in the Assembly and the…