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These New York Schools Aren’t Just Letting Kids Opt Out of Testing—They’re Giving Them an Alternative

9/11/2015

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 Students in the New York Performance Standards Consortium are learning to be critical thinkers, deeply engaged in their education.

By Howard Martin Katzoff SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

This week, children across New York State will exchange the freedom of summer for work sheets, rubrics, and minute-to-minute daily schedules posted on the board. For a few days, their lives will be upended by novelty—they will go into new classrooms, be greeted by new teachers, make new friends, and get new books (if they’re lucky)—but by the end of the month, it will have all the feel of old routine.  click here for full article: Via The Nation


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