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Trucks like this one, have been spotted around Long Island, urging parents to opt their children out of Common Core testing.

Over sixty percent opt out of ELA test in RVC

The Rockville Centre School District saw a slight increase in the number and percentage of third- through eighth-grade students who opted out of the New York State English Language Arts assessments … more

By Brian Kacharaba | 4/6/17

Johnson: Beware of RVC test scores

An overwhelming percentage of Rockville Centre elementary students who took the New York State Assessments attained the top two levels in both math and English Language Arts proficiency, according to … more

By Brian Kacharaba | 10/26/16

State must get Common Core right this time

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. more

10/13/16

How ‘opt out’ roiled Common Core

For every large-scale social movement, there is a “tipping point, that magic moment when an idea, trend or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips and spreads like wildfire.” So wrote New Yorker staff writer Malcolm Gladwell in . . . more

9/15/16

Math test leads to more Rockville Centre opt-outs

Rockville Centre’s refusal to participate in state testing continued with the Math exams last week, but the trend did not carry over to St. Agnes Cathedral School. Once again, 60 percent of … more

By Alex Costello | 4/20/16

More Rockville Centre students opt out

Nearly two-thirds of eligible Rockville Centre School District students sat out the English Language Arts state assessments in grades 3 through 8 last week, mirroring numbers that the district saw … more

By Alex Costello | 4/13/16

Despite opt-outs, test scores rise in Rockville Centre

Although Rockville Centre students opted out of the standardized state tests in record numbers in April, the percentage of students who passed them has, surprisingly, increased in most … more

By Alex Costello | 8/27/15

Common Core — what a mess it is

More than 200,000 New York students “opted out” of the grades three-through-eight Common Core English and math exams this spring. more

8/19/15

Opting out is all the rage, but isn't always smart

It makes psychological sense that in a culture where we are gradually losing control of decision-making and privacy, people would glom onto any power play that offers the illusion of autonomy. more

5/29/15

Let's start over with Common Core

Gov. Andrew Cuomo appears locked in a political death spiral. Last year brought growing dissatisfaction with the State Education Department’s dysfunctional implementation of the new Common Core State Standards . . . more

4/30/15

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