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Q. What’s your take on why the World Trade Center towers collapsed? It still bothers me that other buildings have had fires and have been hit by planes, but didn’t collapse. Were the towers . . .
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By Monte Leeper
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11/23/16
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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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The New York State Education Department last week released new draft English and math learning standards for public comment, according Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia.
“Over the past …
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By Barbra Rubin-Perry
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10/6/16
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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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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 . . .
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9/15/16
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Gary Johnson? Who is this guy, you ask? He is the most prominent of the alternative candidates who will be joining Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton . . .
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6/9/16
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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 Massachusetts State Board of Education recently rejected the battery of state exams required by the Common Core curriculum. It was a bold –– and pathetic –– move on the board’s part.
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12/3/15
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tagh natives Mark Stuart and Jeffrey Eckstein seek to bring out the best in people and inspire conversation with the powerful dance extravaganza “Standard Time,” which opens off Broadway at the Duke Theatre on Nov. 15.
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By Iris Wiener
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10/28/15
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