Demonstrations were held in hundreds of cities across the country yesterday to demand justice for Trayvon Martin and the prosecution of his murderer, George Zimmerman. I spoke at the rally in Seattle yesterday about Trayvon, the school-to-prison-pipeline, and how when my son asked me what had happened to Trayvon, I couldn't find the words to …
Continue reading What I couldn’t say to my son about Trayvon
[Watch new interview on School-to-prison-pipeline] A landmark study, The Effect of High School Exit Exams on Graduation, Employment, Wages and Incarceration, recently released by researchers Olesya Baker and Kevin Lang at the National Bureau of Economic Research links exit exams to high rates of incarceration. The study found no positive impact of these tests in …
Continue reading Video Interview: Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates
I am excited to announce that during the historic MAP test boycott in Seattle this year, Morgan Spurlock (who made the award wining film "Super Size Me") sent a film crew from his new hit TV show on CNN, "Inside Man", to cover our story as part of a piece for his upcoming episode on …
Continue reading CNN’s “Inside Man” to Feature MAP Test Boycott (Sunday July 21, 7pm PT)
Want to close the so-called "achievement gap"? This gap--better described as the opportunity gap--would quickly narrow if standards were added about analyzing the continuity of the American judicial system in excluding Black jurors and acquitting people who murder African Americans--from Emmett Till to Trayvon Martin and beyond. When you teach students about the major issues …
Continue reading Teach Trayvon: What’s not in the Common Core & how to close the education gap
The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that looks at test security in the age of computerized standardized tests. In the wake of a rash of standardized testing cheating scandals—think of D.C.’s “Erasure Gate” courtesy of Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Atlanta’s Superintendent Beverly Hall’s fill-in-the-right-bubble fraud—the Journal looks at the claim by high-tech companies …
Continue reading Jesse in The Wall Street Journal—And what they left out!
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