Was The Fix In On The ELA Regents Exam?
NYC Educator has a post up tonight about the outrage that was the ELA Regents exam.Here's a bit of what he said:Read the two passages and show a controlling idea about insights. That's what today's Regents exam asked my kids to do. The thing is, most of them have only been in the country a few years. And there are likely plenty of American-born kids who don't know what an insight is. Certainly ins
Brutal ELA Regents Exam Grading Chart From NYSED
Okay, they're looking for a high failure rate at SED on the ELA Regents exam, that's for sure.Students need to get 20 out of 25 multiple choice questions right in order to get only a 6 on their writing component.Given how hard the passages were, I suspect we are going to see lots of 6's on the writing components.That means we're going to get lots of failures.The chart is even harder than last Augu
Space Aliens, Yellow Dust And Stars On The ELA Regents...
Normally when I finish proctoring the ELA Regents and see some of my students outside the building after the test, they say that test wasn't so bad, here's what I wrote for this part, etc.Today when I saw students outside the building, they all said "What was up with that test?"I also heard:"What was up with those passages?""I wasn't sure about that quote..."And... &q
Cuomo Lights $5 Million In Tax Money On Fire For The Super Bowl
The Daily News, Post and Times are always railing about how tax money shouldn't be wasted on municipal employees, that there are better things to spend the money on.They mean on stuff like this:New York taxpayers are underwriting several parties in the coming days, including picking up $500,000 of the bill for reporters to eat and drink at a Super Bowl media bash at Chelsea Piers in Manhattan on T
Cuomo Rakes In Big Bucks From Eva Moskowitz's Success Charters
Gee, I wonder what they want for all this money?Supporters of a charter-school network in Mayor de Blasio’s cross hairs are pouring big bucks into the campaign coffers of Gov. Cuomo, a friend of charter schools. Records show board members at the growing Success Academy, which runs 22 charters in the city, have given $375,367 to Cuomo’s re-election campaign — including $90,000 since de Blasio won t
Someone Should Sue Cuomo Over The Unfunded Mandates In NY State
From North Jersey.com:The Saddle Brook Schools may join with several other local school districts in a lawsuit appealing unfunded state education mandates.Superintendent Dr. Richard Katz at the Jan. 15 school board meeting said that school districts including Denville, Montville, Readington and Wayne have been making appeals either to the New Jersey Council of Local Mandates, or directly to the Co
1-26-14 Perdido Street School Week
Perdido Street School: Rick Hess: Ed Reformers Overreached, Reform Backlash ResultedRick Hess in the Daily News today: Those who follow New York City schools have been witnessing a time-honored ritual — pro-testing school reformers have mightily overreached, inviting pushback that’s now poised to dismantle much of their useful handiwork. Mayor de Blasio has said that he and his new chancellor, Car