Students boycott standardized testing based on common core curriculum in New York protest

New York school officials estimate that up to 300,000 New York students—grades three through eight—will have opted-out of federal standardized tests by the time the tests wrap up next week. It's probably more accurate to say it's the parents who are the ones on protest. Those opposed to the common core-based tests argue that parents and educators should be able to set their own standards. ...