Now that the school year is over, I have had some time to reflect on the meaning of the Seattle MAP test boycott victory. My essay about the lessons of our struggle for quality assessment was published in Good magazine: ------------------- Seattle's Garfield High School, home of the bulldogs, is used to winning. Our jazz …
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MAP Test Boycott Victory Tour with Jesse Hagopian
Beginning this weekend, Garfield High School teacher and Rethinking Schools editorial associate Jesse Hagopian will be traveling around the country to share the lessons of how educators in Seattle organized and won a historic victory against standardized testing by boycotting the MAP test. After months of threats from the Seattle School District, they finally agreed …
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Scrapping the MAP charts a course toward good teaching, not flawed testing
OP-ED to the The Seattle Times By Jesse Hagopian and Liza Campbell Please read and share my oped published in the Seattle Times today about our big time victory against the MAP standardized test at the high school level, our unfinished fight at the K-8 level, and what MAP should be replaced with. Liza Campbell, …
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