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Standardized Testing Battle in Seattle: Union votes for a complete moratorium on all standardized tests!

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn MAP test boycott, SBAC, Seattle Eduction Association, Social Equality Educators, social justice unionism, Standardized Testing, Testing Boycott, Uncategorized, Union15 Comments

I am bursting with pride for my union. The Seattle Education Association voted at this week's Representative Assembly to support a resolution calling for a moratorium on all standardized testing!  This vote comes in a long line of organizing and opposition to high-stakes testing in Seattle. In 2013, the teachers at Garfield High School voted …

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Common Core Testing During Ramadan: Hungry for an end to the Islamophobia & racism of high-stakes testing

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The following statement was sent to me by Shannon Crowley, an elementary school teacher in the Seattle Public Schools.  She raises a disturbing reality of yet another way that high-stakes standardized testing is negatively impacting our students of color.  I will just preface her story by saying that Muslims all around the world began to …

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