On Sunday the New York Times featured an article on the demise of the Common Core and PARCC assessments in Massachusetts. According to the Times,
Today’s Washington Examiner article, entitled “Tide Shifting Against Common Core,” is a great illustration of the failure of journalists to differentiate between the Common Core
Today’s New York Times features a doomsday article on the demise of the PARCC assessments aligned with the Common Core State Standards in Massachusetts. In
Here’s New Jersey Asst. State Education Commissioner Bari Erlichson: By making these test questions public, teachers can see how their students’ learning is being assessed
Like the boy in the Hans Christian Anderson’s tale called “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” we’re all agape as results on new benchmarked assessments roll in
Let me state this for the record: I love PBS. But Gwen Ifill’s interview with Jesse Hagopian, an anti-testing activist in Seattle who, according to
The New Jersey Department of Education released the state’s first PARCC results yesterday afternoon. No surprises here: student proficiency scores were lower because the tests
The members of New Jersey’s “review” of the Common Core State Standards are faced with a thankless task: fussing over highly-regarded academic standards that were
Remember that movie “Race to Nowhere” where students are bullwhipped by mountains of schoolwork, tests, and stress, while their teachers are burnt out from relentless
Here’s my new NJ Spotlight piece: Are we being over-optimistic when it comes to how well NJ’s middle-class students are being prepared for college? If