“Test-imony”: Dr. Wayne Au’s address to Washington State Legislature against new teacher evaluation bill

Politicians in Washington State are attempting to reduce educators to lifeless bits of inaccurate data. House Bill ESSB 5748, which would explicitly link teacher evaluation to standardized test scores, was recently introduced into the Washington State Legislature.  Dr. Wayne Au, the University of Washington Bothell's 2015 Distinguished Teaching award winning professor, joined scores of others …

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Beyond Ferguson: Voices in a youth-led movement for justice

The Seattle PBS affiliate, KCTS Channel 9, produced this new "IN Close" episode which takes a look at aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle.  This special is a two part series, the first of which includes an interview I gave contesting the Mayor's assertion that "Seattle isn't Ferguson"--the implication being that we …

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