Join the 6% Club: Parents Who Opt Out of High Stakes Tests
Parents have the RIGHT to opt their children out of this cycle of madness.
If just 6% of the children per school site were opted out of this grossly over-rated system of assessing students and holding educators accountable, we could begin to have a productive dialogue about more humane and complex systems of assessment and education.
Just saw this video (http://youtu.be/RJ26p7IKAgI) in an email from Janine Sopp. The growing opt-out movement has the best chance to redirect education policy, given the fact the major teacher unions are too frightened to take this issue on --- you know, the "we need to be accountable" crap being pushed by Randi and crew. Just ask her and she will spout back "we need multiple measures" even though we all know only one measure is being used and it is unreliable.
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If just 6% of the children per school site were opted out of this grossly over-rated system of assessing students and holding educators accountable, we could begin to have a productive dialogue about more humane and complex systems of assessment and education.
Just saw this video (http://youtu.be/RJ26p7IKAgI) in an email from Janine Sopp. The growing opt-out movement has the best chance to redirect education policy, given the fact the major teacher unions are too frightened to take this issue on --- you know, the "we need to be accountable" crap being pushed by Randi and crew. Just ask her and she will spout back "we need multiple measures" even though we all know only one measure is being used and it is unreliable.
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The high stakes testing fervor which has swept through our public school system has been a