New Video Book Trailer–“More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing”

Screen Shot 2015-05-02 at 11.51.55 AM — VIDEO–More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing

More Than a Score editor Jesse Hagopian reads from the book at a recent tour stop in Washington, D.C.

“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 the county. Now there is a new video trailer, featuring several of the contributors, to help share the lessons of this book inspire resistance to the reduction of teaching and learning to a data point–please share it far and wide.

For too long the “testocracy,” mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation’s youth and educators. Now students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the “reformers” today find themselves facing the largest revolt in US history against high-stakes, standardized testing.

BMore2 — More Than a Score book tour in Baltimore. From left to right: Ben Dalbey, parent of Baltimore City Public School students, preschool teacher, activist; Jesse Haogpian, editor of More Than a Score; Matthew Prestbury, a parent of Baltimore City Public Schools students; Jerry McNutt, a member of the Baltimore Algebra Project. Jessica Shiller, a parent of two public school children in Baltimore and a professor of education at Towson University. (Photo Credit: Junior Bijou)

More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews—accounts of personal courage and trenchant insights—from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.

More Than a Score features the voices of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and grassroots education activists, including: Wayne Au, Carol Burris, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Sarah Chambers, Mallory Clarke, Jeanette Deutermann, Alma Flor Ada, Rosie Frascella, Alexia Garcia, Emily Giles, Helen Gym, Nikhil Goyal, Jesse Hagopian, Brian Jones, Alfie Kohn, Amber Kudla, John Kuhn, Jia Lee, Karen Lewis, Malcolm London, Barbara Madeloni, Cauldierre McKay, Mark Naison, Monty Neill, Diane Ravitch, Aaron Regunberg, Mary Cathryn D. Ricker, Stephanie Rivera, Kirstin Roberts, Peggy Robertson, Falmata Seid, Tim Shea, Phyllis Tashlik, Dao X. Tran