PARCC

QOD: Controversy Over Pearson “Spying” is “Much Ado about Little”

A clip from  The Record editorial, but read the whole thing:IT'S WRONG to make a school exam public before students take…

10 years ago

Pearson, PARCC, and the N.J. D.O.E.

Amid all the mythology about PARCC tests – teachers will  be fired! students won’t graduate! the tests cost too much!…

10 years ago

QOD: A Father Does the Math on The Onus of PARCC

Mike Vaughn, a father of four in Denver Public Schools (and Communications Director at Education Post, which posts some of…

10 years ago

The Irony of Anti-PARCC-ers

The Asbury Park Press Editorial Board thinks poorly of a bill, A 3079, just passed unanimously by the New Jersey Assembly,…

10 years ago

Legislative Update: N.J. Assembly Yields to Anti-PARCC Pandering

In a victory of brown-nosing over common sense, the N.J. Assembly approved two bills yesterday, A 3307 and A 3079.…

10 years ago

Latest PARCC Opt-Out Numbers in New Jersey

Some more "opt-out of PARCC" data is rolling in from local news sources:Newton High School (Sussex County) had previously reported…

10 years ago

QOD: Sen. Sweeney on the Prospects of the N.J. Legislature Passing PARCC “Opt-Out” Bill

Senate President Steve Sweeney said this week in an interview with NJ Spotlight that he was waiting on both bills…

10 years ago

N.J. Students Survive PARCC Tests But There’s a Troubling Trend Among Opt-Outs

Here's my new Newsworks column: This week many of New Jersey's students took PARCC tests, the new computer-based standardized assessments aligned…

10 years ago

QOD: N.J. Superintendent Says “opt-Out” Movement “Eats Away” at Public Education

James Cristfield, former superintendent of Millburn Public Schools, in yesterday's New York Times, on the politics of the opt-out-of-PARCC movement: “There…

10 years ago

True Confessions

While my husband and I were waiting for "Portlandia" to queue up on the roku last night, I happened to…

10 years ago