DELAWARE TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — While his eighth-grade classmates took state standardized tests this spring, Tucker Richardson woke up late and played basketball in his Delaware Township driveway. Tucker’s parents, Wendy and Will, are part of a small but ...
More Parents Opting Kids Out Of Standardized Tests
By KATIE ZEZIMA
Associated Pres, Charlotte Sun
Sun, 09/08/2013 - 2:31pm
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