Perspectives Oregon law suspends graduation testing requirement Spencer Irvine September 23, 2021 The oft-used rallying cry of the Left is to abolish institutions or systems to allegedly level the playing field between…
Perspectives Ivy League Schools Drop GRE Requirement for Some Graduate Programs Spencer Irvine October 8, 2019 Brown University followed Princeton’s lead in removing a requirement for graduate school: GRE (or standardized test scores) from its graduate application processes for multiple departments.
Faculty Lounge As New York Schoolchildren Get Older, They Do Worse on Math Spencer Irvine January 27, 2017 From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient…
Faculty Lounge Standardized Testing is Racist, Black Lives Matter Protesters Allege Spencer Irvine March 17, 2016 This happened at Wisconsin: Protesters interrupted the University of Wisconsin system’s Board of Regents meeting for a third time last…
Faculty Lounge Standardized Testing is Modern-Day Slavery, Principal says Spencer Irvine November 12, 2015 College Fix has more on this: Jamaal Bowman, principal of the intriguingly named Cornerstone Academy for Social Action, wrote in…
Perspectives Smells Like Common Core Malcolm A. Kline August 31, 2015 Even when teachers don’t appear to be complaining about Common Core they actually are, because CC is so unpopular that…
Perspectives GW Admissions Goes “Test-Optional” Spencer Irvine July 29, 2015 Standardized tests such as the ACT and SAT are no longer required by George Washington University. In its weekly e-mail…
Events More Common Core for You! Spencer Irvine October 23, 2014 President Obama’s favorite think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), wants to align standardized tests with Common Core standards. Recently,…
