In this op-ed, a writer calls for more disclosure on how New York State decides where to draw the line between “pass” and “fail” on the all-important standardized tests that students take.
On a warm Saturday morning a few weeks ago, a group of older tenants at the River Park Towers in Morris Heights, a neighborhood in the South Bronx, set up a plastic table across from their building. A handful of women stacked small, store-bought cakes wrapped in plastic on top of it and sat down…