Category: Nathan Hale

Seattle’s Garfield High School Opt Out Movement Scores Huge Victory over “Smarter Balanced” Common Core testing!

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Authentic Assessment, Garfield High School, Nathan Hale, opt-out, SBAC, Standardized Testing, Testing Boycott6 Comments

What will happen at Garfield High School with Common Core testing? I have been asked this question by people all over the country as they learned that this would be the first year that Common Core testing would come to Washington State. All year, teachers at Seattle’s Garfield High School have debated whether to administer …

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New Seattle Test Boycott Erupts: Nathan Hale High School votes to refuse to administer a Common Core test

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Common Core, Nathan Hale, SBAC, Testing Boycott11 Comments

Today, I found out from my good friend Doug Edelstein that his school community decided to collectively refuse to administer the new Common Core test, the SBAC, to 11th graders. Doug teaches at, and graduated from, Nathan Hale (in fact, my step-dad was a classmate of his).  The Nathan Hale Senate--a body made up of the …

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