Tag: standardized tests

While the Saugerties Central School District appears to be leaning toward allowing teachers to determine how students who opt out ...

Last week, huge numbers of students opted out of state-mandated Common Core English tests. Local numbers include 61 percent in ...

Since everything I learned I did not learn on Facebook hence my lack of use or need for such social ...

Saugerties students who opted out of the grades 3–8 standardized tests this week were treated with something else to do: more ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) Many educators expect more students to opt out of the Common Core grades 3-8 English and ...

As state testing for grades 3-8 is set to begin next month, parents returned to the Board of Education during ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) Two recurring issues for the Saugerties School Board led to a sometimes contentious discussion at the ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) Parents of third through eighth grade students in Saugerties have been warned by state education officials ...

Saugerties superintendent Seth Turner. (photo by Dion Ogust) Saugerties school district Superintendent Seth Turner took the April 9 meeting as ...

(Photo by Dion Ogust) After a decade of high-stakes standardized testing, a revolt is brewing. Many local parents and — ...

Jolyn Safron, co-chair of the Kingston District Wide Parents Council, speaks at the forum. (Photo by Alen Fetahi) Worry over ...

When the New York State Education Department released its initial results from the 2010-11 round of standardized testing, George Washington ...

The Montessori program at George Washington Elementary School has already faced in its short lifetime concerns about whether it would ...