More New Jersey Students Opt Out of Tests

March 2, 2015

… home of Julia Sass Rubin, a Princeton mother and a founder of Save Our Schools, a group that advocates against high-stakes tests. They make children “feel stupid and inadequate,” she said, and results are used to unfairly close schools in poor cities against the wishes of the community.
Wall Street Journal, March 2

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