No Wonder The Parcc Consortium Has Lost So Many States
A comment left at the Worcester Telegram and Gazette:Why it may not be a great idea to take PARCC this year: 41% of students who took the pilot reported it was hard to type their answers. 46% of students reported technology problems when taking the math test teachers reported that 72% of students needed more time than the test recommended (suggesting a gross misjudgment of the time requirement)
The Problem With Education Reform Centers On The Education Reformers Themselves
An editorial in The Worcester Telegram and Gazette:We're all for quality and high standards in public education. But the taxpayers of Massachusetts should be asking some hard questions about the cost of and need for revamping the state's standardized testing system. For the coming year, at least, school districts will be permitted to choose between the familiar Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessme
How Crooked Are Andrew Cuomo And Sandra Lee?
From Fred Dicker at the NY Post:State Republicans want to know if Gov. Cuomo’s live-in girlfriend, “Semi-Homemade’’ celebrity chef Sandra Lee, is subsidizing his living expenses with income from companies doing business with the state, a possible “gifts law’’ violation, The Post has learned. Republicans — who recently accused Lee, owner of the $1.2 million, six-bedroom, Westchester home where the
NYCDOE Should Expand Composting Program To Include Common Core/EngageNY Modules
From the Times:New York City’s school composting program, kicked off just two years ago by parents on the Upper West Side, is now in 230 school buildings in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island, and is expected to more than double in size and reach all five boroughs in the fall, with an ultimate goal of encompassing all 1,300-plus school buildings. Depending on where the school is, the uneaten an
6-22-14 Perdido Street School
Perdido Street School: Regents GradingBleary-eyed teachers in different places around the city are grading Regents exams this weekend - including this bleary-eyed teacher at Perdido Street School.That so much is riding for students, teachers and schools on a grading process that has exhausted teachers working through the day, then grading at night and on weekends, really ought to trouble any fair