Illinois: Stop Testing K-2 Kids!
IMPORTANT!!! K-2 Testing Bill (PROHIBITING K-2 Testing) will be heard TOMORROW!! Subject: Alert: Sign witness slip in support of this bill–Senate Bill 3986 SB3986 will...
Category : Pre-K
Paul Bonner: The Absurdity of Testing Kindergartners
Paul Bonner, who recently retired as a principal in Alabama, wrote the following comment as part of a discussion of administering NAEP to kindergartners. He...
Nancy Bailey: There is No Need to Give NAEP Tests in Kindergarten!
Experienced teacher Nancy Bailey opposes Michael Petrilli’s proposal to give NAEP tests to kindergartners. Petrilli, who is president of the conservative Thomas B. Fordham Institute...
Leonie Haimson on de Blasio’s Education Record
Leonie Haimson assesses Bill de Blasio’s record on education after eight years as Maor of New York City. He succeeded Mayor Michael Bloomberg, who served...
Leonie Haimson to Mayor de Blasio: Cancel the Tests for Gifted and Talented Programs NOW!
Parent advocate Leonie Haimson has written an urgent plea to New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio and Chancellor Richard Carranza. They acknowledge that the...
St. Louis: Privatizers and Assorted Billionaires Pick Over Bones of Public School System
Tracee Miller, a member of the St. Louis Board of Education, writes that she was shocked and dismayed to discover that a proposal to raise...
Sound Advice for Parents of Young Children
Denisha Jones, an expert in early childhood education and a lawyer (and a member of the board of the Betwork for Public Education) has prepared...
Distance Learning is Horrible for Kindergarten Students
A reader with the anonymous sobriquet “Kindergarten Interlude” writes: For my kindergartners distance-learning was never fun. And Lord knows for me it is not just...
A Conversation about the Pandemic and Early Childhood Education
Every Wednesday at 7:40 pm EST, the Network for Public Education has hosted a conversation about education. All the conversations are archived here. In the...
Sing “Happy Birthday” to the Woman Who Wrote the Song
Today is the birthday of Patty Smith Hill, who wrote “Happy Birthday to You.” I recall that she was a leading advocate for early childhood...