More on Seattle teachers' boycott of the MAP test
... 'The tests themselves are known as 'junk science' because of their pseudo-scientific basis in metrics while they notoriously produce unreliable, unreproducible, and even faked results...'
Sarah Jaffe - February 08, 2013
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3967§ion=Article
[Editor's Note: The following essay -- "What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers' Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It" -- first came out on February 6, 2013 on Alternet. The coincidence of the essay appearing on the same day the Chicago Teachers Union voted unanimously at its House of Delegates meeting deserves to be read by Substance readers. The only necessary historical correction that needs to be made is that Chicago was the first city to have boycotts of so-called Standardized Tests, beginning with the Substance publication of the Chicago CASE tests and continuing through the "Curie 12" -- the English teachers at Curie High School in Chicago whose boycott of the CASE tests in 2002 forced Arne Duncan, then CEO of Chicago's schools, to drop the CASE tests].
High school teachers in Seattle are saying no to the spread of high-stakes standardized tests. On January 10, the staff of Garfield High
Sarah Jaffe - February 08, 2013
http://www.substancenews.net/articles.php?page=3967§ion=Article
[Editor's Note: The following essay -- "What You Need to Know About the Seattle Teachers' Rebellion and the Deeply Flawed Test That Inspired It" -- first came out on February 6, 2013 on Alternet. The coincidence of the essay appearing on the same day the Chicago Teachers Union voted unanimously at its House of Delegates meeting deserves to be read by Substance readers. The only necessary historical correction that needs to be made is that Chicago was the first city to have boycotts of so-called Standardized Tests, beginning with the Substance publication of the Chicago CASE tests and continuing through the "Curie 12" -- the English teachers at Curie High School in Chicago whose boycott of the CASE tests in 2002 forced Arne Duncan, then CEO of Chicago's schools, to drop the CASE tests].
High school teachers in Seattle are saying no to the spread of high-stakes standardized tests. On January 10, the staff of Garfield High
Ohanian Lays Waste to Common Core (Once Again)
Keep reminding yourself that both the UFT/AFT and the DOE/Ed deformers support CC.
Here is Susan's latest report:
Here is Susan's latest report:
Cartoon: Advice from Dr. Seuss.
http://susanohanian.org/cartoon_fetch.php?id=712
Cartoon: Facebook deactivation contract.
http://susanohanian.org/cartoon_fetch.php?id=711
Cartoon: Rosa Parks
http://susanohanian.org/cartoon_fetch.php?id=710
Cartoon: follow Gates money trail
http://susanohanian.org/cartoon_fetch.php?id=707
Cartoon: Purpose of the CCSS
http://susanohanian.org/show_nclb_cartoons.php?id=847
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Won't Get Fooled Again? Reasons to Resist the Common Core
Michael Paul Goldenberg
Rational Math Ed blogspot
2013-02-09
http://susanohanian.org/core.php?id=418
Outstanding, short summary of what's wrong with the experimental, risky, and destructive