March 2, 2015
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 […]
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February 25, 2015
From NJSBA’s Legislative Update, which cites the Association’s testimony against A-4190 because the bill could “jeopardize federal funding,” “frustrat[e]” tenure reform efforts, and “eliminate a […]
February 24, 2015
at least regarding the N.J. Senate’s ability to resist union-pandering and stand strong on the state’s efforts to improve instruction and assessment. From today’s NJ […]
February 23, 2015
Judging by NJEA and Save Our Schools-NJ websites and lobbying efforts, New Jersey parents are opting-out their children from PARCC tests in droves. Here’s NJEA […]
February 23, 2015
The Press of Atlantic City, hardly a reform-minded publication, comments on New Jersey’s overblown “anxiety attacks” regarding PARCC assessments, a timely topic given that today […]
February 20, 2015
It starts here: Last Friday in Newark Public Schools, 3,500 students in fifty-six buildings participated in a PARCC simulation, a forty-five minute dress rehearsal for […]
February 19, 2015
James A. Crisfield, superintendent of one of New Jersey’s highest-performing districts, Millburn Public Schools, has an editorial today in NJ Spotlight that makes a reasonable and […]
February 17, 2015
Fifteen years ago the N.J. School Boards Association reported on “new challenges” to the state’s public schools. The State had introduced its Core Curriculum Content […]
February 17, 2015
Tom Moran of the Star-Ledger nails the (il)logic that drives the mismatched pockets of New Jerseyans who deplore new standards and assessments, as well as […]
February 11, 2015
The Garden State’s anti-testing crowd continues to intensify its opposition to the PARCC assessments and the media is responding this week with a plethora of […]
February 10, 2015
Speaking of annual standardized testing, Derrell Bradford, Executive Director NYCAN, describes the bad old days when “states had testing regimens that amounted to spot checking […]
February 10, 2015
In a letter addressed to U.S. Congressmen John Kline and Robert Scott of the Education and Workforce Committee, a group of civil rights leaders and education […]