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Parents of preschoolers who are applying to New York’s top private schools are now coming face to face with the test universally known as the E.R.B., a nerve-racking intelligence exam made more so because there is no do-over if the child has a bad day. Enlarge This Image Chang W. Lee/The New York Times Claudia Singleton, center, the mother of a 4-year-old, at a workshop on how New York Cityâ??s top private schools decide which students to admit.
A big legal battle is brewing between New York City’s education department and the local teachers union over the recently announced plan to issue public rankings of teachers based on how their students perform on tests.
When New York State made its standardized English and math tests tougher to pass this year, causing proficiency rates to plummet, it said it was relying on a new analysis showing that the tests had become too easy and that score inflation was rampant.
LIKE any concerned parent, Ronald Laconi, president of the Chartis Private Client Group, sat with his son through a security presentation for college freshmen a few weeks ago. “We spent a good hour and a half hour going through the safety procedures,” he said. Enlarge This Image Aaron Houston for The New York Times Christie Alderman, vice president at the insurance firm Chubb & Son, said parents needed to consider whether their position would make them an attractive target for a lawsuit.
Average national SAT scores for the high school class of 2010 fluctuated slightly by section compared with last year, but remained unchanged overall, a report says. Asian students continue to post the greatest average increases among racial and ethnic groups, and average scores for students from wealthy families were highest of all.
Money can buy many things to help children excel academically, like tutors and private school educations. But as those children go off to college, the one thing otherwise protective parents typically do not spend money on is making sure their children do not become victims of a crime.
IOWA CITY — The hour when Ariana Kramer will begin her college career is fast approaching — and her parents are in an office supply store, disagreeing about hanging files, of all things. “She’ll need them,” her mother says. “I don’t think so,” her dad counters
Standardized exams — the multiple-choice, bubble tests in math and reading that have played a growing role in American public education in recent years — are being overhauled. Over the next four years, two groups of states, 44 in all, will get $330 million to work with hundreds of university professors and testing experts to design a series of new assessments that officials say will look very different from those in use today. The new tests, which Secretary of Education Arne Duncan described in a speech in Virginia on Thursday, are to be ready for the 2014-15 school year.
Two years ago, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and his schools chancellor, Joel I.
Every year, the scene plays out in classrooms across the nation. A child clings to his mother, tears welling in his eyes as he pleads with her to stay a few moments longer.