Seattle's Garfield High School has once again moved into collective struggle!--and we may to find out today if one of us is to be displaced from the building or if the power of protest has kept us safe from the budget-cut ax for now. The Seattle School District announced on Friday, October 17, that Garfield …
Continue reading “Let Us Graduate!”: Garfield High School walks out on budget cuts
Send your statements of solidarity today! Seattle's Garfield High School (where I graduated from and now teach history) has once again united the students, parents, and educators in common struggle. Last Friday it was announced that our school had until the following Friday, October 24th, to raise $92,000 or else one of the teachers in …
Sign the Save Recess Petition today! You have heard about Seattle's fight for a $15 minimum wage, or the teachers who organized a mass boycott of the MAP test. But you might not be aware of the newest movement--organized for one of the most basic human rights--that was recently ignited in the emerald city: The …
Continue reading Restore Recess: A Movement is Born
“Do not keep children to their studies by compulsion but by play.” – Plato “Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.” - Mr. Rogers The Seattle Times published my op-ed today on how the …
Continue reading Play Over Test Prep–My op-ed in the Seattle Times
I am thrilled to announce that Kenzo Shibata, writing for the current issue of The Nation magazine, named the forthcoming book I edited, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, to the list of “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice.” The book’s forward was written by Diane Ravitch, the …
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