A City Education: Teaching the Value of Education Beyond State Tests
In our A City Education series, two City Year corps members share their experiences working as tutors and mentors in schools in hopes of closing the achievement gap and ending the dropout crisis.
"Why are we still meeting? The test is over," one of my English Language Arts students asked me during a recent tutoring session. He and his classmates had completed three days of New York State testing for ELA the week before and had three more days of math testing to come. I empathized with the tired seventh-grader, but explained to him that we would be meeting to study until June.
I’d heard about "the test" since school started back in September. Teachers and students talked about the first