Make no mistake: The state Board of Regents is indeed moving to kill New York's gold-standard 'Regents Diploma'. Officially, the board is now just mulling the recommendations of its Blue Ribbon Commission on Graduation Measures to 'update' grad requirements - but those ideas are all about watering down standards.
As ever, the dumbing-down is packaged in honeyed words: 'Every student has unique talents, skills, and interests, and a one-size-fits-all approach fails to recognize and nurture these differences,' puffs Education Commissioner Betty Rosa.
Rosa and the Regents bathe their war on actual education in noise about their 'commitment to diversity, equity and inclusion,' the need for a 'Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework' and the supposed perils of 'high-stakes' testing - wrapping in progressive blather their refusal to insist on effective pedagogy.
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