A clip from The Record editorial, but read the whole thing: IT’S WRONG to make a school exam public before students take it. And those who
Amid all the mythology about PARCC tests – teachers will be fired! students won’t graduate! the tests cost too much! they undermine instruction!* – news
Mike Vaughn, a father of four in Denver Public Schools (and Communications Director at Education Post, which posts some of my commentary), adds up how
The Asbury Park Press Editorial Board thinks poorly of a bill, A 3079, just passed unanimously by the New Jersey Assembly, that would bar standardized testing
In a victory of brown-nosing over common sense, the N.J. Assembly approved two bills yesterday, A 3307 and A 3079. A 3307, according to the
Some more “opt-out of PARCC” data is rolling in from local news sources: Newton High School (Sussex County) had previously reported that 41% of its
Senate President Steve Sweeney said this week in an interview with NJ Spotlight that he was waiting on both bills until the Senate education committee
Here’s my new Newsworks column: This week many of New Jersey’s students took PARCC tests, the new computer-based standardized assessments aligned with the Common Core
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 are forces united against
While my husband and I were waiting for “Portlandia” to queue up on the roku last night, I happened to click on a link from