Category: MAP test boycott

Garfield High’s Jesse Hagopian named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” By Academy of Education Arts and Sciences

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Garfield High School, MAP test boycott, Social Justice Pedagogy, Standardized Testing1 Comment

Jesse Hagopian and friend Michele Bollinger (editor of "101 Changemakers"and a teacher in DC) leave the award ceremony with Jesse's two Bammys on Saturday night, September 21, in Washington DC. http://www.bammyawards.com WASHINGTON, DC – Garfield High School history teacher Jesse Hagopian was named “Secondary School Teacher of the Year” on Saturday by the Academy of Education …

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Mr. Hagopian Goes To Washington–To testify to the U.S. Congress on testing!

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn MAP test boycott, School-to-prison-pipeline, Standardized Testing5 Comments

I have been invited to Washington, D.C. to testify before the Congressional Black Caucus of the United States Congress about how the high-stakes standardized testing craze is eroding public education, fueling the school-to-prison-pipeline, and being used to label schools as failures and close them down--particularly schools that serve African American students. In addition to my …

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MAP test company to debate MAP boycott teachers

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The NWEA, the producer of the MAP test, will be sending a representative to Seattle on Tuesday, September 17th to join a panel with two educators who have been leaders in the movement to boycott the MAP test in Seattle.  With a national movement developing last year to "Scrap The MAP" and replace it with …

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More Parents Opting Kids Out Of Standardized Tests

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Common Core, demonstrations, Garfield High School, MAP test boycott, Standardized Testing4 Comments

As a new school year begins, let me be the first to wish you parents, students, and teachers a year full of intellectual curiosity, problem solving, empowerment, and struggle to make education about more than the ability to eliminate wrong answer choices and shade the box corresponding to the single best answer choice. As a …

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Scrap the MAP Victory Tour Update

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Garfield High School, MAP test boycott, Standardized Testing2 Comments

Over the past few months I have traveled around the country to speak to audiences about the lessons of the historic victory of the Seattle MAP test boycott.  Since spring break, I have spoken at the AERA academic conference in San Fransisco, at a high school in Portland with test resisters, to the teacher's union …

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