PARCC

New NJ Spotlight Column: Ongoing Battles in NJ over Camden, Newark, PARCC Testing, and School Funding

It starts here:New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: A Local NJEA Unit’s Distorted Attacks on PARCC Testing

It starts here:Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a "massive position statement" detailing…

10 years ago

The Daily Record on Common Core and PARCC: “Get a Horse”

Yesterday The Daily Record published an editorial that slams both the Common Core State Standards and the tests aligned with…

10 years ago

QOD: Badass Teachers Looking a Few Good Men

I’ve written about the Badass Teachers Association (BAT) before, this rebel outpost of the national teachers unions, specifically its challenges to…

10 years ago

New WHYY Newsworks Post: Conference Assesses Common Core Roll-Out in N.J.

It starts here:On Tuesday morning the New Jersey School Choice and Education Reform Alliance (NJSCERA) held a statewide conference on…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: The Testing Backlash and the Union Gamble

It starts here:Last week I looked at some of the myths surrounding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a set…

10 years ago

New Newsworks Post: Christie and NJEA’s Partnership over PARCC

It starts here: Hand it to ol' Chris Christie: on Monday he snatched victory from the jaws of defeat by…

10 years ago

Christie Compromises (a bit) on PARCC-infused Teacher Evaluations

Well, Bob Braun was half-right. Gov. Christie did issue an executive order last night that renders Senate Bill 2154 moot,…

10 years ago

QOD: LA Sup John White on Jindal’s Quest to Quit the Common Core

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is trying mightily to pull his state from both the Common Core State Standards and one…

10 years ago

Update on N.J. Senate Bill to Delay PARCC Testing

Yesterday NJ Spotlight published my column about the politics behind Senate bill 2154, which would establish an "Education Task Force"…

10 years ago