Welcome to another annual rite of spring: the state exams for grades three through eight.
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4/11/19
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New York State Education Department officials will have to forgive the public if people don’t appear eager to embrace Next Generation Learning Standards. We were burned by Common Core.
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6/1/17
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Nearly 95,000 Long Island children in grades three through eight — roughly 52 percent of the total — did not take the New York state standardized English Language Arts exam last week, as the “opt-out” movement continued . . .
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4/6/17
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Here we go again: The New York State Education Department is revising its grades-three-to-eight English and math standards. We can only say, with fingers crossed, that we hope the state will get it right this time.
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10/13/16
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A little under 50 percent of Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District seventh-graders passed the New York State English Language Arts exam and just over 56 percent passed the math test, according to the State Education Department.
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By Scott Brinton
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9/2/15
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More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring.
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8/19/15
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Last week more than a thousand third- to eighth-grade students in the Merricks did not take state English Language Arts tests.
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By Brian Racow
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4/22/15
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In 1983, famed Harvard psychologist Howard Gardner published his seminal book, “Frames of Mind: The Theory of Multiple Intelligences,” which laid out seven primary intelligences . . .
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3/12/15
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The North Merrick School District aimed to educate parents about changes to the English Language Arts curricula under the new Common Core State Standards at a Feb. 23 forum at Fayette Elementary School called “Parents University.”
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3/5/15
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Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District officials spent recent weeks poring over reams of state English Language Arts and math test data for the seventh and eighth grades, looking for patterns in student performance, according to Caryn Blum, the district’s assistant superintendent for instruction and a former Merrick Avenue Middle School principal.
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By Scott Brinton
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8/28/13
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