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October 23, 2015
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 […]
October 23, 2015
Peter Cunningham in the Huffington Post: Charter opponents like to label education leaders who are empowering families’ right to choose as “privatizers.” In their dictionary, […]
October 23, 2015
From Paul Rudnick’s “diagnostic exam” in the New Yorker: 1. When your first grader asks for help solving a Common Core math problem involving subitizing […]
October 22, 2015
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 […]
October 21, 2015
Chalkbeat reports today that yesterday New York City Chancellor Carmen Fariña and New York State Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, equipped with dueling improvement plans, visited two […]
October 21, 2015
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 […]