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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MAP Test Boycott Victory Tour with Jesse Hagopian
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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Video: Garfield, A History of Activism
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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