Below is the thank you letter that educators at Seattle's Garfield High School wrote to Nathan Hale High School for their courage in taking the lead in the movement to oppose the new "Smarter Balanced Assessment," Common Core Tests. Their example helped inspire Garfield to win a major victory against the SBA test, and has …
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Seattle’s Garfield High School Opt Out Movement Scores Huge Victory over “Smarter Balanced” Common Core testing!
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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“Test-imony”: Dr. Wayne Au’s address to Washington State Legislature against new teacher evaluation bill
Politicians in Washington State are attempting to reduce educators to lifeless bits of inaccurate data. House Bill ESSB 5748, which would explicitly link teacher evaluation to standardized test scores, was recently introduced into the Washington State Legislature. Dr. Wayne Au, the University of Washington Bothell's 2015 Distinguished Teaching award winning professor, joined scores of others …
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Top Ten Acts of Test Resistance in 2014–The greatest year of revolt against high-stakes testing in U.S. history
The year 2014 marked the greatest year of revolt against high-stakes testing in U.S. history. Across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams—often taking great personal and professional risk to defy the corporate education reformers...Here then are my picks for the top ten most powerful acts of resistance to high-stakes, standardize testing in 2014. I hope to add your action to my list next year!
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#MoreThanAScore Twitter Chat Monday,12/1, 8:30pm EST
Log on to Twitter, tell your story of resistance to high-stakes testing, and ask the authors of "More Than a Score" your questions on how to build the movement! Tuesday is the official release date for the book I edited and contributed to, “More Than A Score: The New Uprising Against High Stakes Testing"--a new …
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