The student data debate intensifies in NYS
State Ed Commissioner John King and his deputy, Ken Wagner, got an earful this morning (yet another earful!) about their plans to share student data with the inBloom datacloud. They spoke before a...
View ArticleThe State vs. LoHud: How they see our educational needs
There is a widening gulf – a not-so-grand canyon – between how our school community in the Lower Hudson Valley sees the world and how our state education leadership sees the same old world. As an...
View ArticleRegister now: Diane Ravitch coming to Fox Lane HS in Bedford on Jan. 16
Diane Ravitch, the veteran education analyst and historian whose criticism of the current wave of test-driven reforms has helped galvanize opposition in NYS and across the nation, will speak on Jan. 16...
View ArticleFour state assemblypeople take aim at Board of Regents, inBloom, Common Core...
Four local assemblypeople just met with our editorial board and they are not happy with the state’s leadership on education. Interestingly, they aimed most of their criticism not at Commissioner John...
View ArticleClass Notes column: The fear of public school ‘privatization’
It was maybe a year ago that I first heard someone warn about the “privatization” of public education. I’m sure that I (quietly) scoffed at the idea. Yes, I get that a lot of people don’t like what’s...
View ArticleClass Notes column: Will school reforms be slowed or stopped?
By Gary Stern gstern@lohud.com New York state’s Great Education Wars may be reaching a pivotal stage. Legislators are breathlessly promising to support all sorts of freezes and reviews of the Common...
View ArticleSED’s Ken Wagner talking Common Core in Suffern on Saturday morning
Do you have questions about the Common Core, new testing or other state education initiatives? On Saturday morning, you could ask them of Ken Wagner, deputy state education commissioner. He’ll be...
View Article‘Class Notes’ column: The federal slant on school reform (which should sound...
By Gary Stern gstern@lohud.com When I was listening Thursday evening to a top federal education official talk about school reform, I kept wondering about one subject “reformers” never touch: How did...
View Article‘Class Notes’ column: Common Core-based tests under fire
By Gary Stern gstern@lohud.com Standardized tests are being put to the test this spring like never before in New York. Round two of the state’s new Common Core-based tests for grades 3 to 8 are being...
View Article‘Class Notes’: New York’s superintendents offer vision of public education
Whether you love the Common Core or hate it, don’t you think it would nice if someone took a step back and refocused on what public education is all about? New York’s school superintendents have done...
View ArticleClass Notes column: Can you figure out where Common Core came from?
Where did this Common Core come from anyhow? As Election Day nears—with Rob Astorino’s “Stop Common Core” ballot line set to go in New York—I could imagine hectic suburban parents paying a little more...
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