It starts here: The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), the consortium that provides student assessments for New Jersey and ten
Read the whole thing, but here’s the opening: Opposition to state testing comes from the far left and the far right. It comes from parents
In New Jersey, where education reform disputes seem especially shrill, the focus has been all-things-PARCC. Readers know where I stand: common standards and annual aligned
Yesterday the N.J. Senate Education Committee considered six bills, most related to PARCC assessments. No big surprises: the Committee, chaired by Senator Teresa Ruiz, released
I’m a bit confused by the PARCC editorial in today’s NJ Spotlight. Scott A. Oswald, superintendent of Collingswood and Oaklyn public schools, thinks that the
Montclair Public Schools has one of the highest PARCC opt-out rates in the state and it appears that the boycott of annual standardized tests is
Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee, has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC moratorium bill (A 4190) and
Today Walter Bowne, an A.P. English teacher somewhere in South Jersey, argues in NJ Spotlight that PARCC test results should not be tied to his
Jim O’Neill, interim superintendent of Livingston Public Schools, defends his district’s high PARCC opt-out rates in yesterday’s NJ Spotlight: I am sorry to say the
From Leslie Brody in today’s Wall St. Journal: As thousands of parents refuse to have their children take state tests in New Jersey this spring,