New York’s Love Affair with Standardized Testing (as long as you call them Regents)
May 12, 2016Update to Yesterday’s Post on N.J.’s Waning Resistance to PARCC versus N.Y.’s Sustained Opposition
May 13, 2016New NJ Spotlight Column: Re: N.J.’s Mediocre PARCC Results, Don’t Shoot the Messenger
It starts here:
Michael Barone once observed that “one of my longtime rules in politics is that all procedural arguments are insincere, including this one.” He might have included the Education Law Center’s recent gambit in his catalogue of disingenuity. In this case the advocacy group filed a lawsuit against the New Jersey Department of Education for a “failure to comply with the statutory and regulatory requirements governing the issuance of State-endorsed high school diplomas and the failure to comply with the Administrative Procedure Act NJS.A. 52:14B-1 et seq..”
Translation: The DOE. didn’t follow proper procedure when it replaced New Jersey’s old high school diploma qualifying test, called the HSPA, with the new test, called the PARCC. Straightforward, right? Or, per Barone’s dictum, not so much. All procedure, no substance; all shadow, no light.
Read the rest here.
