Now that the school year is over, I have had some time to reflect on the meaning of the Seattle MAP test boycott victory.  My essay about the lessons of our struggle for quality assessment was published in Good magazine:

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Seattle’s Garfield High School, home of the bulldogs, is used to winning.

Our jazz band is a perennial winner of the Essential Ellington national completion, our track and basketball team are perennial state contenders, our drumline just took the top place in the end of the year regional competition, and we have award-winning clubs such as Junior State of America debate team and the knowledge bowl. But this year we scored a whole different kind of victory: Not a high score on the test, but a defeat of the test itself. Not a win for a competition, but a victory for the solidarity of students, parents, and teachers in the struggle for authentic assessment over standardized testing…

Continue reading at: http://www.good.is/posts/how-mass-civil-disobedience-at-a-seattle-high-school-catalyzed-the-education-spring