Assembly Votes to Put Brakes on Impact of Common Core and New Student Testing
Assembly Votes to Put Brakes on Impact of Common Core and New Student Testing (via NJSpotlight)
A bill to slow the impact of the new Common Core State Standards and accompanying student testing won big — and bipartisan — approval from the state Assembly this week. Now the question is: What happens next? The measure won a 72-4 victory in the…
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I find it interesting in all this talk that the impact on the children is not mentioned – only on the teachers being evaluated. Commoncore is detrimental to the kids – teaching kids to be good testers instead of good, creative, outside the box thinkers is ridiculous. I hope more and more Jersey parents get educated and put pressure on the fools in office making these terrible decisions