The Weekly Update: Seattle teachers stand firm, testing push back around the country, a parent offers ideas for those opt-out days and Yong Zhao on testing and standardization
It’s been quite a week in our fair city. Many of us here in Seattle have watched the destruction of the teaching profession, schools and communities around the country based on the use of standardized test scores to further an agenda of corporate reform and privatization using the scorched earth approach to education and we do not want to see that happen in Seattle or anywhere else for that matter. Our teachers have placed themselves on the front line of defense here and I commend them for it and back them 100% as countless others do.
There has been an outpouring of support from students, teachers , parents and concerned community members around the country and the teachers in Seattle are standing strong.
We’ll start with a rally of teachers and parents that was held on Wednesday at the Seattle Public Schools administrative building.
One of the many reasons that I and others object to the MAP test is that it is being used as a way to evaluate teachers and yet is was not designed for that purpose. It is also expensive and a complete waste of time because the questions many times do not align with what is being taught in the classroom. The MAP
