ColorLines magazine: MAP test boycott among “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”!

Video: 10 Racial Justice Wins For 2013 ColorLines magazine just released their list of  “10 Racial Justice Wins for 2013”—and it is impressive. In a year when George Zimmerman was permitted to legally lynch Trayvon Martin, it can be all too easy to overlook the hard work of racial justice activists around the nation who …

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Jesse Hagopian’s Testimony On Testing: Educators provide first-hand account to the Congressional Black Caucus of how destructive ed reforms hurt students

Source: Education Votes/edvotes.org Photo: Seattle educator Jesse Hagopian at CBC Foundation 43rd Annual Legislative Conference Sign up to follow Jesse's blog at: http://www.IAmAnEducator.com & Follow Jesse on twitter at: https://twitter.com/JessedHagopian Educators provide first-hand account of how destructive ed reforms hurt students by Brian Washington Jesse Hagopian spent the first three years of his teaching career …

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Mr. Hagopian Goes To Washington–To testify to the U.S. Congress on testing!

I have been invited to Washington, D.C. to testify before the Congressional Black Caucus of the United States Congress about how the high-stakes standardized testing craze is eroding public education, fueling the school-to-prison-pipeline, and being used to label schools as failures and close them down--particularly schools that serve African American students. In addition to my …

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Scrap the MAP Victory Tour Update

Over the past few months I have traveled around the country to speak to audiences about the lessons of the historic victory of the Seattle MAP test boycott.  Since spring break, I have spoken at the AERA academic conference in San Fransisco, at a high school in Portland with test resisters, to the teacher's union …

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What I couldn’t say to my son about Trayvon

Demonstrations were held in hundreds of cities across the country yesterday to demand justice for Trayvon Martin and the prosecution of his murderer, George Zimmerman.  I spoke at the rally in Seattle yesterday about Trayvon, the school-to-prison-pipeline, and how when my son asked me what had happened to Trayvon, I couldn't find the words to …

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