04.11.2016 Columns Guest Spot: A place to create, discover and share Words matter. They matter in all aspects of life, especially when we are talking about how to define a school. Of course, brick and mortar are only a small...
12.11.2015 Education Changes coming to Common Core — Zeldin Amendment included Congressman Lee Zeldin (R-Shirley) has confirmed that President Barack Obama signed proposed legislation Thursday that includes his own proposal, dubbed the Zeldin Amendment, which will allow states to opt out...
09.18.2015 Education Gov. Cuomo: ‘Common Core is not working’ It seems that Gov. Andrew Cuomo has heard the complaints of many superintendents and principals: Common Core, in its current form, has some problems, and it’s time to make...
04.23.2015 Education Did more outspoken leadership play a role in ‘opt out’ results? School districts whose leaders have been most outspoken in opposing New York’s direction with public education saw more students refuse last week’s assessments, a Riverhead News-Review analysis has found.
04.21.2015 Columns Guest Column: How the ‘opt-out’ movement continues to grow A mere four years ago, and for decades prior, one could not find any substantial evidence of students opting-out of standardized testing. At first glance, the current, heated, conflict...
04.09.2015 Education Local educators express concern over state education bill “They couldn’t have made a worse decision than what we have in our hands right now.” For someone who has been a vocal critic of New York State’s public...
02.20.2015 Editorials Editorial: Cuomo’s proposals take high-stakes testing too far The rushed rollout of the Common Core State Standards under Gov. Andrew Cuomo during the 2012-13 school year set off alarm bells in school hallways and living rooms across...
05.08.2014 Letters Featured Letter: By observing carefully, we learn To the editor: Southold School District Superintendent David Gamberg has been an outspoken critic of the Common Core Learning Standards implementation and its testing requirements. So his expressed desire...
