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 …
The infamous MAP test is set to be administered in my son’s school this week. The MAP is a computerized test meant to measure students in math and reading. Seattle Public Schools initially required MAP kindergarten through high school, with multiple testing periods per year. In 2013, Garfield High School launched a boycott of the …
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.
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