As a new school year begins, let me be the first to wish you parents, students, and teachers a year full of intellectual curiosity, problem solving, empowerment, and struggle to make education about more than the ability to eliminate wrong answer choices and shade the box corresponding to the single best answer choice. As a …
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Garfield reading teacher Mallory Clarke, Garfield PTSA president Phil Sherburne, and myself are all featured in Seattle Magazine's August issue in their examination of the MAP test boycott victory. As Phil said, “When we identify the kids who are not performing, we need to figure out the optimum way to use our resources to help …
Continue reading Seattle Magazine: “How Garfield High Defeated the MAP Test”
I am excited to announce that during the historic MAP test boycott in Seattle this year, Morgan Spurlock (who made the award wining film "Super Size Me") sent a film crew from his new hit TV show on CNN, "Inside Man", to cover our story as part of a piece for his upcoming episode on …
Continue reading CNN’s “Inside Man” to Feature MAP Test Boycott (Sunday July 21, 7pm PT)
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 …
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