01.18.2015 Columns Guest Column: The folks in Albany want us all to step aside Ordinarily, letters exchanged between governors and high-level bureaucrats don’t make it to the top of The New York Times bestseller list. But, sometimes, one comes across a letter that...
03.23.2014 Columns Guest Column: SAT, Common Core don’t match up We’ve heard a lot recently about the “new” SAT, the national standardized test created and marketed by the private, not-for-profit College Board and used by many colleges and universities...
11.27.2013 Education Guest Spot: Board of Regents creating ‘education apartheid’ The New York State Board of Regents insists the state’s public school students are not “College and Career Ready.” They claim that public school students are not prepared for...
10.03.2013 Opinion Cohen: Regents Reform Agenda is Wrongheaded In 2001, Congress reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, commonly known as No Child Left Behind. At the time there was strong bipartisan support for the idea that...