Cue Pomp and Circumstance because many more Washington State high school seniors will be walking across the stage and handed a diploma! Beginning with the class of 2020, high school students are no longer required to pass the "Smarter Balance Assessment" high-stakes standardized test to graduate. They will still have to take at least one …
Continue reading Huge Victory for Washington State’s Students: Exit Exam Requirement Struck Down!
I recently gave this talk titled, "More Than a Score," for the TEDx Rainer event at Seattle's McCaw Hall theater. In this talk I advocate for the great uprising against reducing our children to a test score and I make an argument to opt in to authentic assessments--not only because it will better engage students, …
José Vilson teaches middle school math in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. His book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, stormed the heavily guarded gates of the education reform debate, battered them down, and made people sit up straight and listen to a social justice …
Continue reading This Is Not A Review: José Vilson’s reflections on “More Than a Score”
A few weeks ago, I spoke in New York City at the Progressive Educator Network's national conference. There I joined a wonderful panel that highlighted resistance to standardized testing. After the panel I got off of the stage and an educator approached me and introduced himself as Caselli Jordan, a kindergarten teacher and musician from Philadelphia. …
"Exceptional" --Publishers Weekly "Exciting" --Truthout "Arguments to win over even the most skeptical school reformer." --Kirkus As the opt out movement explodes nationwide, the tour for the new book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing has been generating inspiration, excitement, strategy, and tactics in the struggle against unfair testing across …
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