Testing mania: Rate your students' assessments and Seattle protest video
Rate your own students' assessments to help keep decision makers informed and check out the new video documenting the Seattle MAP protests. Read More
Educators, parents pressure TX lawmakers to limit high-stakes tests; national movement builds
Historic actions against excessive standardized tests expected to multiply in coming weeks. Will it be an “EduSpring?” Read More
How you can help build the movement to end testing mania
Monty Neill of FairTest on how we can win the battle for better evaluations of students, teachers and schools. Read More
New Face of Teacher Unionism, Eyes Fixed on Testing Mania
At Seattle's Garfield High School, a small but passionate group of educators is standing up for their students by refusing to administer the flawed and irrelevant Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test. Read More
Educators, parents bring new urgency to fight against flawed standardized tests
In Seattle, educators and parents are boycotting an onerous test. It’s just one effort in a rising tide of discontent with the testing regime. Read More
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What We're Reading
- 04/26/2013 "The Coming Revolution in Public Education" - The Atlantic
- 04/30/2013 Congresswoman, parents want to save Head Start from sequester cuts – Tampa Bay Times
- 04/30/2013 Evidence doesn't support choice program expansion – Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
- 05/01/2013 "No Rich Child Left Behind" – NYT Opinionator
- 05/02/2013 Detroit Schools Emergency Mgr Roberts to leave, says he was told to "blow up" & "dismantle" district – Daily Kos
