NYSAPE Urges Parents to Opt Out of Biden Testing
New York State Allies for Public Education has led the successful opt out movement in their state for years. As much as 20% of all...
New Congressman Jamaal Bowman Blasts Biden Testing Plan
Congressman Jamaal Bowman, experienced teacher and principal and teacher, was elected last November and now is a member of the House Education Committee. He was...
Nicholas Tampio: Let the Children Play This Summer, Not Catch Up on “Learning Loss”
Nicholas Tampio, a professor of political science at Fordham University, wrote recently in the Washington Post that children need a break, not academic pressure, this...
Steve Hinnefeld: Black Legislators in Indiana Were Right to Talk about Race
Veteran blogger Steve Hinnefeld writes about education in Indiana. In this post, he describes a controversy in the Legislature about whether a portion of a...
New York: A Sample Opt Out Letter
LisaM says: Oh, you tell that to all the administrators and state Ed people I had to deal with. If one didn’t send their child...
California: Nearly 50,000 Teachers and Parents Say NO to Biden Testing Demand
UPDATE TO NEWS RELEASE: 50,000 signatures submitted to SBE-parents, educators urge waiving standardized testing California Teachers Association February 22, 2021 1705 Murchison...
Peter Greene: Six Reasons Not to Rely on the Big Standardized Tests
Standardized tests are not all the same, so talk about “standardized tests” in general tends to commit what linguistic philosophers call a “category error”—a type...
Mercedes Schneider on the Biden Testing Plan
Mercedes Schneider comments here on the Biden administration’s unexpected and ridiculous decision to insist on another round of standardized tests in the middle of the...
Al Franken on Rush Limbaugh’s Squalid Legacy
Al Franken is the former Senator from Minnesota. He wrote this retrospective on Rush Limbaugh in the New York Daily News. Rush Limbaugh died this...
Pastors for Texas Children to the Texas Legislature: “Make Suitable Provision!”
One of our greatest allies for public schools in the nation is the remarkable Pastors for Texas Children. They are active every day in Texas,...