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Raise Your Hand on return of PARCC “To have the Illinois test ready for spring, ISBE has basically adopted PARCC for one more year,” th...

Bannon: "Move fast and break things"  Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) “We have got to have the guts to take on the insurance compani...

Correction: Thanks to John Merrow and several other readers for catching this error in the story below. As John points out: The Emerson C...

Got this in my mail today from the right-wing think-tankers at the Hoover Institute: "PARCC and Massachusetts state exams predict col...

PARCC officials are still working to determine the full scope and causes of last year’s score discrepancies, which may partly result from...

Chicago Teachers Union President Karen Lewis, will speak at today's pre-strike rally in Grant Park amid stalled contract talks with ...

Test results for IL's 2,000,000 students have plummeted to their lowest point in a decade. They purport to show nearly 70% of them faili...

"We've been writing and meeting with ISBE officials for over two years to stop this madness. We've told them that our technolo...

Goodhart's law is named after the banker who originated it, Charles Goodhart. Its most popular formulation is: "When a measure be...

SEIU Local 1 President Tom Balanoff  “Mayor Emanuel doesn’t understand that what made Chicago great was working people. We think he ha...

It seems the Little Emperor has turned into the big whiner. No sooner had Republican Sen. Kirk warned us, in racist code language, tha...

“I continue to personally and professionally believe that to administer PARCC this year is absolutely not in the best interest of our stu...

Rahm Emanuel attends a 2011 fundraiser at the Chicago home of Rajiv Fernando, the CEO of Chopper Trading, a firm that has donated to Emanu...

Arne Duncan gives his more-testing announcement at Seaton Elementary School in Washington, D.C. Sometimes the news is so bizarre that I ...

Supt. Trish Kocanda This time it comes from the leader of one of the nation's wealthiest and most progressive districts. Supt. Trish...