Press Release | Results on the Nation’s Report Card in Science released by the U.S. Department of Education reveal New York falling behind the nation in science and results getting worse instead of improving.
Recent Articles
A Basic Four-Step Process to Curbing Cheating
PBS’ Learning Matters | New York and other states’ assessment administration and scoring processes should be overhauled from top to bottom to eliminate the opportunities for cheating.
A Better Recipe for Fixing NY Schools
New York Post | Despite all of the focus on potential education funding reductions in the state budget, the fact remains that education outcomes will not improve much until students are given the opportunity to learn in better schools.
Race to the Top and Charter School Autonomy
Huffington Post | Why it is wrong for the New York State Education Department to ask charter schools to sign onto a set of restrictive requirements that would impair charter school autonomy in exchange for participating in Race to the Top.
The Unions’ Plan to Kill Good Schools
New York Post | The statewide and New York City teachers unions are working in tandem to smear public charter schools as badly as possible and, in the process, standing in the way of better public education for children living the state’s most underserved communities.
Publications
New York City NAEP Results: Performance Too Low; Improvement Too Slow
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading and math exam scores released today by the U.S. Department of Education for some of the country’s largest urban cities reveal that more than two-thirds of 4th grade students and three-fourths of 8th grade students in New York City are not proficient at their grade level.
Teachers Union Lawsuit to Minimize Teacher Evaluation Reforms an Act of Desperation
Legal action by the state’s teachers union to minimize the role student test results play in teacher evaluations is just the latest move in a long pattern of union actions opposing the use of meaningful, objective data to help determine how well teachers are performing.
Graduation Data Raises Questions About the Value of New York High School Diplomas
A high school diploma in New York unfortunately is far from an indicator of students being adequately prepared for a career or college. Data also shows that Upstate New York’s urban school children are getting left behind.
