José Vilson teaches middle school math in the Inwood/Washington Heights neighborhood of New York, NY. His book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education, stormed the heavily guarded gates of the education reform debate, battered them down, and made people sit up straight and listen to a social justice …
Continue reading This Is Not A Review: José Vilson’s reflections on “More Than a Score”
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing, know as FairTest, just released its wonderful report on the immense growth around the country of the movement in opposition to the abuses of standardized testing. The victories included universities getting rid of their SAT/ACT requirement, states dropping the requirement for an exit exam to graduate from …
The economic justice periodical In These Times recently ran this important article on the mass rolling strike wave of teachers and educators across Washington State--including now some 65 different union locals--who are standing up to a lawless state legislature that refuses to obey a court order to fully fund education. As I point out in …
The Seattle PBS affiliate, KCTS Channel 9, produced this new "IN Close" episode which takes a look at aspects of the Black Lives Matter movement in Seattle. This special is a two part series, the first of which includes an interview I gave contesting the Mayor's assertion that "Seattle isn't Ferguson"--the implication being that we …
Continue reading Beyond Ferguson: Voices in a youth-led movement for justice
To the readers of I Am An Educator, Thanks are due to so many of you who have contacted me with encouraging words in the wake of me being pepper sprayed by police on Martin Luther King Day. Blow is the essay I wrote about what happened, which was originally published in The Nation. The …
Continue reading Video: I was pepper sprayed in the face on MLK Day
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