It starts here:The New Jersey Department of Education just released the "2013-2014 Final Educator Evaluation Implementation Report," which lays out…
From today's NJ Spotlight on New Jersey's first year of value-added teacher evaluations, which rated 97% of teachers and principals…
"We must move forward with our work under this new system to make good teachers great, and great teachers exceptional.”That’s…
Assemblyman Patrick Diegnan (D-Middlesex), chair of the Assembly Education Committee, has an editorial in today’s Star Ledger promoting his PARCC…
Today is Parents Across America and Fairtest’s “National Day of Action,” which is devoted to lobbying U.S. senators to eliminate…
Jonah Edelman, the father of two children taking Common Core-aligned assessments (he's also a writer for the Daily Beast), parses…
Senate President Steve Sweeney said this week in an interview with NJ Spotlight that he was waiting on both bills…
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,…
Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know…
Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC…