In the remarkable 2014 film “Whiplash,” J.K. Simmons plays Terence Fletcher, a maniacal music professor at an elite East Coast conservatory bent on producing the next truly great jazz musician . . .
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9/21/17
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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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The Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District again had among the highest percentages of students in Nassau County opting out of the state English Language Arts exams last week, with 73 percent of seventh- and eighth-grade students sitting out the exams.
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By Erik Hawkins and Brian Stieglitz
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4/6/17
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The New York State Education Department last week released new draft English and math learning standards for public comment, according to Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia, but teachers in the community are looking for more changes to the Common Core system.
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By Scott Brinton and Ben Strack
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10/5/16
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More than 40 percent of eligible Long Beach students in third through eighth grades sat out the state English Language Arts assessments last week, a sizable increase over the number of students who opted out of the exams last year.
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By Ben Strack
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4/13/16
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Standardized testing began in America in the mid-1800s, a practice spurred by leaders’ sincere desire to develop comprehensive, unbiased and uniform measures to compare students from diverse …
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By Ayyan Zubair
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1/29/16
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The results of the standardized math and English Language Arts tests for grades three through eight were released last week, but Long Beach school officials have yet to determine how the district …
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By Matthew Ern
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8/20/15
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I want to enumerate the many reasons I’m so against making test scores count for 50 percent of the ratings.
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6/24/15
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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.
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5/29/15
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The North Merrick School District announced in March that each of its schools — Camp Avenue, Fayette and Old Mill Road — had qualified for a $75,000 “Reward School Dissemination Grant” from the state Education Department due to their students’ high performance on state assessment tests in 2011 and 2012.
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By Brian Racow
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4/17/14
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