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Civil Rights Leaders Plead with Congress to Maintain Annual Standardized Testing

In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Column: N.J.’s Anti-Testing Bill is Really About Teacher Tenure

It starts here:New Jersey State Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan's (D-South Plainfield)  new opt-out-of-testing proposal, A-4165, guts the ability of parents, teachers,…

10 years ago

QOD: Diane Ravitch on National Standards and Annual Standardized Assessments

Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know…

10 years ago

How the Anti-Standardized Testing Movement is Like the Anti-Vaccine Movement

Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC…

10 years ago

QOD: Bob Braun Rebuts NJEA and SOS-NJ’s Claim that PARCC Tests are High Stakes for Students

Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory…

10 years ago

N.J. Reconsiders the “Harrowing Stresses” of “Data-Driven Education”

On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See…

10 years ago

QOD: Annual Standardized Testing is a “Moral Imperative”

Today the Washington Post Editorial Board says that the “civil rights achievement” of NCLB, and pending Congressional negotiations over its reauthorization…

10 years ago

Standardized Testing Opponents are on the Wrong Side of Civil Rights

Here's my new Newsworks column:On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of…

10 years ago

The Anti-Testing Movement and Global-Warming Deniers

Ann Hyslop of Bellwether is just the smartest person in the room on the dangers of the growing resistance towards…

10 years ago

Any Parent Who Opposes the Common Core is Saying “I Do Not Want My Child Prepared for Life”

Here’s Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin (also known as “The Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition):The fact is, any parent…

10 years ago