{"id":2046,"date":"2017-06-29T16:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/?p=2046"},"modified":"2017-06-29T16:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T20:23:04","slug":"phil-murphy-part-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.musingsbymichael.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/29\/phil-murphy-part-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Phil Murphy Part 4"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today I will blog about Phil Murphy and his view on Education. Just as a side note this will be the last one for awhile on this candidate, I will do a blog on the Republican candidate Kim Guadagno next week.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From his campaign website<\/a>– <\/span><\/p>\n

Phil Murphy is committed to ending New Jersey\u2019s reliance on PARCC tests and eliminating standardized testing as a requirement for graduation. If elected, he would direct the state Department of Education to work with educators to create an assessment that would meet the federal reporting requirements of ESSA. He also would eliminate passage of a standardized test as a graduation requirement.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Phil believes that standardized tests have a role, but we should not be overly reliant on them. And as he has said throughout his campaign, “Good teachers and good students can have bad test days. Too much emphasis is being put on a single test, as opposed to weighing a student\u2019s progress through years of instruction.”<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

All well and good that he wants to end PARCC testing and it is wise of him to support the elimination of standardized testing as a requirement for graduation. The only hitch here is the fact that we as a society have been over emphasizing tests as an indicator of a good education, can we persuade the federal Department of Education to accept this view or not? Plus his statement that by using PARCC it puts too much emphasis on a set of tests and not on the student\u2019s whole testing record; so kudos to you Phil Murphy.<\/span><\/p>\n

Now on how Mr. Murphy would lower the cost of education in this state, again per his website<\/a>–<\/span><\/p>\n

Phil believes that if we want to keep our state economically competitive and successful, our leading export can no longer be high school seniors. He is committed to making college affordable for every New Jersey student. Specifically, he will:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n