Scott Kuffel: I’m No Hero
A few days ago, I named Scott Kuffel to the honor roll for his courage in speaking out against the state’s arbitrary decision to raise the cut scores on state tests, thus lowering student grades, in preparation for Common Core testing. Anytime a superintendent is willing to stand up for what is right and to defend students and teachers from misguided policies, they are heroic. We need many more of
Parent: My Son Suffered Psychological Abuse
This is a story written by a mother who enrolled her son in Democracy Prep in Harlem. She is a Nigerian-born journalist. She contends that the school’s rigid discipline was excessive and that her son spent hours every day in detention. It is a harrowing story. No doubt, Democracy Prep has another version. I welcome its response to this article. I will post it. She writes: “On my first visit to
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Diane Ravitch's blog | A site to discuss better education for all: FairTest Fact Sheet About Common Core TestsFairTest released the following fact sheet about the Common Core tests: Common Core Assessment Myths and Realities: Moratorium Needed From More Tests, Costs, Stress Under No Child Left Behind (NCLB), each state set its own learning standards and developed tests to measure them. But NCLB’s
