Last spring I was invited to the Earth School in the East Village of New York City to speak at a forum about the lessons of the MAP test boycott that I helped to organize in Seattle. Earth School 4th and 5th grade teacher Jia Lee, along with insurgent teacher union activists in MORE and …
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Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality: Support the publication of this new book for educators
VIDEO: Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality Supporters of social justice education will be thrilled to learn that Rethinking Schools is currently working on a new book, Rethinking Sexism, Gender, and Sexuality. In order to put this invaluable tool in the hands of educators, we need your support. Please consider donating to this book project. From …
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Chicago teachers at Saucedo Elementary vote unanimously to boycott the Illinois Standards Achievement Test: We scrapped the MAP! You can Ice the ISAT!
A beautiful thing happened today. Teachers at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy voted unanimously to refuse to administer the Illinois Standards Achievement Test (ISAT). Since teachers at Garfield High School—and then several other schools in Seattle—voted to boycott the MAP test last year, there has been an explosion of activism against high-stakes, standardized tests. And yet …
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Happy New Year of Struggle Against Corporate Education Reform: MAP test boycott tops lists of most important struggles of 2013!
2013 was the best year of my life. My younger son was born--on Martin Luther King Jr.'s, birthday, no less--only two days after my colleagues at Garfield High School announced that they were going to defy corporate education reformers by refusing to administer the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Seeing my older son receive …
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The Nation magazine names Seattle Eduction Association “Most Valuable Union” and credits Social Equality Educators for support of MAP test boycott
The Nation magazine released its "Progressive Honor Roll of 2013" where it names "heroes both for their accomplishments of the past year and their determination to do even more in 2014"--and they made some great picks! Most valuable book went to Diane Ravitich for here masterpiece of truth-telling, Reign of Error. "Most Valuable Musical Partnership" …
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