PARCC

Upper-Class Suburbia and Its Discontents with PARCC

Laura McKenna, author of the recent Atlantic article “What Happens When Students Boycott a Standardized Test? “ (April 9th), describes…

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Are Teacher Unions in a “Terrible Situation” or in the Catbird Seat on Standardized Testing Issues?

“The teachers’ unions are in a terrible situation,” he said, “because on the one hand they want to argue that…

10 years ago

“Movements are moral.” Opting-out Isn’t.

A couple of weeks ago Citizen Stewart wrote that he was having trouble shutting his mind off after writing, in…

10 years ago

Crunching the PARCC Opt-Out Data

What looks like a victory to some parents may soon backfire in their faces. The anti-PARCC hysteria that's torn through…

10 years ago

New Jersey’s Opt-Out Numbers Are In

New Jersey’s opt-out numbers are in, reports today’s NJ Spotlight.  (Here's additional coverage from the Star Ledger, The Record, and…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: NJEA and the Heritage Foundation: Perfect Together

It starts here:Almost everyone is finding something to like in the new U.S. Senate bill that would replace No Child…

10 years ago

Common Core-Aligned Opt-Outs’ Correlation with Family Income

Today  Leslie Brody at the Wall St. Journal reports on the first day of PARCC [correction: NYS students don't take PARCC,…

10 years ago

QOD: Civil Rights Groups Take on Anti-Testers, Including NEA

This concerted effort by national civil rights groups to include annual standardized testing in a newly-authorized NCLB/ESEA bill (current title: Every…

10 years ago

Opting Out of PARCC: “Everyone is Talking About it at Whole Foods”

Andy Rotherham has a great piece up at US News on the opt-out “movement.” Clear-headed as always, he  notes that…

10 years ago

New NJ Spotlight Column: “Don’t Fall For the Opt-Out Cope-Out”

It starts here:Upholding ethical principles in Trenton’s State House is no game for wimps. Legislators in the Assembly and the…

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