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• Pearson’s NYC misstep draws state education officials’ concern

  
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  ALBANY — State education officials expressed doubt today about whether the testing firm Pearson, which has several contracts in New York, can handle its expanding workload. “Obviously, the public is starting to question, I think, very aggressively with us whether or not they’re able to manage all of the things ...
  4 weeks ago

• Walcott’s ‘Poem in Your Pocket’ pick echoes boss’s 2010 verse

  
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  Unlike his boss three years ago, Chancellor Dennis Walcott stuck to Emily Dickinson’s original script today while reading to a crowd on national Poem in Your Pocket Day . Mayor Michael Bloomberg brought the springtime literary event to New York City in 2002 in conjunction with National Poetry Month. He has made a ...
  4 weeks ago

• Efforts to boost test security leave proctoring rules unchanged

  
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  Most students taking this week’s state reading test are doing so under the watchful eyes of their regular classroom teacher. Teachers proctor their own students’ exams in most schools, in an arrangement that is logistically simple and keeps students calm  — but also represents a soft spot in the state’s ...
  4 weeks ago

• With donor’s help, city launches Common Core ads before tests

  
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  The latest addition to the city’s public relations offensive about the year’s tougher-than-usual state tests is $240,000 in subway, ferry, and newspaper advertisements. Chancellor Dennis Walcott and his deputies have used a variety of avenues to get out the message about the harder tests in recent weeks, ...
  5 weeks ago

• King and Walcott take their Common Core message to church

  
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  State Education Commissioner John King took the stage at Greater Allen AME Cathedral in Queens on Sunday to tell parishioners about the new Common Core standards, on the eve of the first state tests tied to them. Speaking to the congregation at Greater Allen AME Cathedral’s morning worship in Queens on Sunday, the ...
  5 weeks ago

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