America's Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against "Reform" Mandates

America's Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against "Reform" Mandates:

America's Education Spring: A Growing Revolt Against "Reform" Mandates

Thursday, 16 May 2013 09:31By Jeff Bryant, Campaign for America's Future | name.

 “It’s always hard to tell for sure exactly when a revolution starts,” wrote John Tierny in The Atlantic recently. “I’m not an expert on revolutions,” he continued, “but even I can see that a new one is taking shape in American K-12 public education.”

Tierney pointed to a number of signs of the coming “revolution:”

• Teachers refusing to give standardized tests, parents opting their kids out of tests, and students boycotting tests.

• Legislators reconsidering testing and expressing concerns about corruption in the testing industry.

• Voucher and other “choice” proposals being strongly contested and voted down in states that had been friendly to them.

Tierney linked to a blog post by yours truly, “The Inconvenient Truth of Education Reform,” explaining how the movement known as “education reform” has committed severe harm to the populations it professes to serve while spreading corruption and