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Rise & Shine: New state tests in grades 3-8 could top four hours

  • A state proposal would lengthen reading exams in grades 3-8 from 150 to 245 minutes. (Daily News)
  • After student protests, CUNY voted to raise tuition by $300 a year. (Times, NY1, Daily News, Post, WSJ)
  • The NYPD released a set of school arrest data. (GothamSchools, SchoolBook, Daily News, Post, WSJ)
  • Proponents of a plan to replace Cobble Hill Success with a preschool made their case. (GothamSchools)
  • Chicago plans to close 10 schools this year, the most in a single year, and one is not failing. (Tribune)
  • A Chicago-based nonprofit is training teachers on how to include math skills in pre-kindergarten. (WSJ)
  • Teach for America has grown established in New Orleans, but questions remain. (Times-Picayune)
  • guest

    Have the people who are working on NYS education policies and testing ever met a child?  

  • Roma Giudetti

    I would just amend that question slightly.  Have the people who are working on NYS education policies and testing ever met a child who went to public school?

  • il flerpolo

    Lord. Most adults couldn’t sit through a 245-minute test.

  • I noticed that…

    Making a child take a test for that many hours or minutes is cruel, uncaring and heartless.  This is state exam child abuse!

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