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Huge Victory for Washington State’s Students: Exit Exam Requirement Struck Down!

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn exit exam, MAP test boycott, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, opt-out, SBAC, Standardized Testing, Uncategorized2 Comments

Cue Pomp and Circumstance because many more Washington State high school seniors will be walking across the stage and handed a diploma! Beginning with the class of 2020, high school students are no longer required to pass the "Smarter Balance Assessment" high-stakes standardized test to graduate. They will still have to take at least one …

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Graduation Not Incarceration: No to exit exams in Washington!

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn exit exam, NAACP, opt-out, SBAC, School-to-prison-pipeline, Uncategorized3 Comments

Some 6,000 high school seniors in Washington are at risk of not graduating because they haven't passed one of the myriad of high-stakes tests, including the Smarter Balance Assessment Consortium (SBAC) Common Core aligned language arts and math exams, as well as a biology end-of-course exam. These students could have met all the other requirements, …

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