By Jesse Hagopian, first published in The Progressive magazine Corporate education reformers who seek to reduce teaching and learning to a single score are beginning to realize they are losing the public relations battle. Hundreds of thousands of families across the country are opting out in what has become largest revolt against high-stakes testing in …
Continue reading Six Reasons Why the Opt Out Movement is Good for Students and Parents of Color
City blocks in prime locations aren’t the only things gentrified. It is also happening in our classrooms and books, pushing out the past, erasing the lives and struggles of African Americans from our collective memory.
As the one-year anniversary of a Seattle police officer pepper spraying me on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day approaches, I sat down with the Seattle Weekly reporter, Casey Jaywork, to discuss ongoing struggles for social justice. Here are my reflections on police brutality, the intersection of race and class, and disrupting the school-to-prison-pipeline. --- Teacher …
2016 has begun with important news: We have endured the last days of Secretary of Education Arne Duncan roaming the halls of government, looking for teachers and students to intimidate. Arne, "the nation's bully," no longer runs the schoolyard. Educators and families around the country will remember him by many monikers, none of them sympathetic. …
Continue reading Arne Duncan: Testocracy Tsar. Educational Alchemist. Corporate lackey.
Never in U.S. history have more students, parents, and teachers engaged in acts of resistance to standardized tests. During the 2015 testing season, over 620,000 public school students around the U.S. refused to take standardized exams, according to a report by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest). I wrote this essay for …
Continue reading Five 2015 victories that put cracks in the ‘testocracy’
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