May 26, 2015
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 […]
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May 20, 2015
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 […]
May 19, 2015
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 […]
May 18, 2015
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 […]
May 12, 2015
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 […]
May 8, 2015
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 […]
May 7, 2015
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 […]
May 6, 2015
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 […]
May 1, 2015
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, […]
April 30, 2015
It starts here: New Jersey has administered annual standardized tests peacefully for 15 years, but this year’s spring ritual was scarred by dissension that engaged […]
April 29, 2015
I think the stakes are either overstated or understated depending on which side of the argument you’re on. Both sides need to take a step […]
April 27, 2015
Whither goes Colorado, so goes New Jersey? Chalkbeat reports that Colorado applied for a waiver from the U.S. Department of Education so that districts wouldn’t […]