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Sunday, April 21, 2013

Jersey Jazzman: Something Is Very Wrong With Merryl Tisch

Jersey Jazzman: Something Is Very Wrong With Merryl Tisch:


Something Is Very Wrong With Merryl Tisch

Am I the only one who finds this sort of behavior borderline sociopathic?
Rockville Centre on Long Island had an unusually high number of students who skipped the exam, Superintendent Bill Johnson said. Mr. Johnson said 338 of the district's 1,650 third- through eighth-graders didn't take the test.
Mr. Johnson said he thought there were "serious problems" with the test, in large part because teachers are just beginning to learn the approach required under the new benchmarks, known nationally as the Common Core State Standards.
"We had a couple of kids who got sick, who started throwing up," he said. "We