The Wall Street Journal recently ran an article that looks at test security in the age of computerized standardized tests. In the wake of a rash of standardized testing cheating scandals—think of D.C.’s “Erasure Gate” courtesy of Chancellor Michelle Rhee and Atlanta’s Superintendent Beverly Hall’s fill-in-the-right-bubble fraud—the Journal looks at the claim by high-tech companies …
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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 …
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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This year Seattle's Garfield High School made history by launching a school wide boycott of the MAP test--a struggle ultimately successful at the high school level. People who were inspired by the MAP test Boycott will be interested in the Museum of History and Industry's short video they created last school year on the history …
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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, …
Continue reading Scrapping the MAP charts a course toward good teaching, not flawed testing
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