Julia Sass Rubin, the mother of a seventh-grader in New Jersey and a founder of Save Our Schools New Jersey, a group that is critical of the test, said the reduced time is a good first step. But she said cutting the test back to once a year does not address all the lost instructional time and overarching concerns about “narrowing of the curriculum and teaching to the test.”
Longo & Matto: The forgotten lesson from 1776 that could rescue democracy in 2026
By Nicholas V. Longo and Elizabeth C. Matto As the nation celebrates the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, it is worth highlighting a revision made as the document was being crafted. In an early draft, Thomas Jefferson referred to the colonists as...