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“More Than a Score” named in The Nation’s “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice!”

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing8 Comments

I am thrilled to announce that Kenzo Shibata, writing for the current issue of The Nation magazine, named the forthcoming book I edited, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, to the list of “5 Books to Build a Movement for Education Justice.” The book’s forward was written by Diane Ravitch, the …

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Announcing “More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing”

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Authentic Assessment, Diane Ravitch, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, Standardized Testing4 Comments

Pre-order available for More Than a Score Edited by Jesse Hagopian, Foreword by Diane Ravitch, Introduction by Alfie Kohn, Afterword by Wayne Au A teacher threatened with having her teaching license revoked for organizing a testing boycott explains how her school defeated the standardized test.  A valedictorian shares the speech she delivered to her graduating …

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On My Son’s First Day of Kindergarten: OurSchoolsAreNotFailing.org organizes communities to defend their schools from NCLB

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Today is the first day of school in Seattle. I have never been more excited and nervous for the first day because, not only do I start teaching, but my 5-year-old starts kindergarten! My son is so thrilled for his first day of school and our family feels so fortunate to have such a wonderful …

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“This is a test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson and Beyond

On By I AM AN EDUCATORIn Ferguson, Michael Brown, School-to-prison-pipeline, Social Justice Pedagogy, Standardized Testing, Uncategorized13 Comments

“We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” --Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Brown’s since middle school. In the wake of the police murder of the unarmed 18-year-old African American high …

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Video: What Does RESPECT Mean?–Vote today for a new union leadership to defend public education

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Voting has begun! I am running for president of the Seattle Education Association (SEA) with a dozen other educators on the RESPECT ticket.  We want to transform our union to become a powerful force to defend public education from corporate education reformers. Many of us were leaders in the MAP test boycott and we all believe …

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