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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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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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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According to the Rockville Centre School District, on April 1, the first day of the state English Language Arts exam, parents of 774 students — 47 percent of the testable student population — had …
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By Alex Costello
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4/2/14
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Ten years ago, English Language Arts teachers used to speak of inspiring their students to become lifelong readers and lovers of the written word.
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8/14/13
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English Language Arts and math proficiency ratings fell throughout New York and across Long Island after the State Education Department effectively raised the bar in an effort to better prepare students for higher education.
In recent years, school districts throughout the state— including Rockville Centre — had enjoyed continually higher passing rates in the yearly assessments, taken by students in grades 3 through 8. In addition to the scoring changes this year, the tests were also moved to May —from January for the ELA and from March for math.
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by Judy Rattner
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8/4/10
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