New York state adopted Common Core Standards for K-12 in 2010, and for prekindergarten in 2011. These standards give educators a clear idea of the skills and knowledge that students should have as they progress through the different grade levels. Teachers get to decide how to best achieve the...
Every spring, the Grades 3-8 English Language Arts (ELA) and Mathematics Tests are administered to students across New York State. These annual tests are designed to measure how well students are mastering the learning standards that guide classroom instruction and help to ensure that students are...
5But they will have to give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead. 6For this is the reason the gospel was preached even to those who are now dead, so that they might be judged according to human standards in regard to the body, but live according to God in...
Nearly identical disparities are seen in state data from 2019, when different standards of measurement were used and before the pandemic’s negative impact on student achievement. As a former special education teacher with a doctorate in special ed, I know this problem requires our urgent attentio...
Developed and implemented by the New York State Education Department’s Office of State Assessment, the New York State Testing Program (NYSTP) is a system of assessment that evaluates students’ achievement of state learning standards and determines whether or not schools, districts, and the state...