February 5, 2015
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, schools, and the state […]
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February 3, 2015
Absent standards, poor and minority children do not have equal access to challenging courses; absent assessments, no one can know the size of the gap […]
February 2, 2015
Fifteen years ago the Center for Disease Control declared that measles had been eradicated in America. But now the CDC is warning that the U.S. […]
January 29, 2015
Bob Braun, New Jersey’s Diane Ravitch-clone, is outraged. Okay, that’s his usual posture, but this time his target isn’t Cory Booker or Cami Anderson or […]
January 26, 2015
On Friday New Jersey’s “Study Commission on the Use of Student Assessments in New Jersey.” issued its Interim Report. (See today’s NJ Spotlight for details.) […]
January 16, 2015
Today the Washington Post Editorial Board says that the “civil rights achievement” of NCLB, and pending Congressional negotiations over its reauthorization are, threatened by an unholy […]
January 16, 2015
Here’s my new Newsworks column: On Monday U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan outlined his wish-list for the next iteration of No Child Left Behind. […]
January 9, 2015
Ann Hyslop of Bellwether is just the smartest person in the room on the dangers of the growing resistance towards standardized testing. One in eight […]
January 5, 2015
Here’s Stanford University mathematician Keith Devlin (also known as “The Math Guy” on NPR’s Weekend Edition): The fact is, any parent who opposes adoption of […]
December 22, 2014
It starts here: New Jersey’s education reform landscape has always been rocky, and 2014 was no exception, pitted with growing resistance towards new accountability metrics, […]
December 11, 2014
It starts here: Last month the Executive Committee of the Delran Education Association (Burlington County) issued a “massive position statement” detailing its “defiant opposition to […]
December 9, 2014
Yesterday The Daily Record published an editorial that slams both the Common Core State Standards and the tests aligned with the Common Core called PARCC. […]