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After careful thought, we exercised our legal right to opt our children out of the ISAT tests being given next week to all 3rd through 8th graders. Why? The state is phasing out the ISAT at the same time it ...

Brian Busteed of Gallup Education: In education, “our biggest problem is actually our focus on the problem,” said Busteed. Education leaders are mainly focused on what is wrong with schools, how ineffective our teachers are, and what our students don’t ...

Superintendent Michael McGill of Scarsdale, an affluent New York suburb, challenges the value and impact of current education policy.  

“Our students, teachers and communities deserve better.”  So say 1,535 New York principals and more than 6,500 teachers, parents, professors, administrators and citizens who signed an open letter to the NY Schools Chief expressing serious concerns with evaluating teachers by ...

With 7,000 schools nation-wide, the Catholic Church is a major player in US education and Common Core backers have a vested interest in bringing Catholic schools on board to the new standards.  Amid a rising flood of concerns being raised ...

A teacher received a standing ovation from 1,500 community members gathered at Ward Melville High School on Long Island yesterday.   State Education Commissioner John King, Regents Chair Merryl Tisch and NY State Sen. John Flanagan listened to the community’s ...

“Why are some kids crying when they do homework these days?”  According to award winning principal, Carol Burris, as reported in the Washington Post:   emphasis added my own

Many educators are concerned that the Common Core standards are developmentally inappropriate.  Award winning principal Carol Burris and Assistant Principal John Murphy offer another example in today’s Washington Post: A few days ago, our superintendent shared a Common Core assessment ...

Remarks by Mary Calamia, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in Stony Brook, New York, at the Suffolk County Education Forum hosted by the New York State Assembly Minority Education Committee on October 10, 2013.   Text of her presentation follows: ...

Farragut High School senior Ethan Young received a standing ovation after addressing the Knox County School Board on November 6, 2013.  He said the Common Core State Standards are causing the school district to wrongfully and narrowly focus on test ...