“No” to Testing: More and More City Parents Boycott Standardized Tests
by ed notes online
On April 8th, parents from the Earth School, a progressive school on the Lower East Side, held a meeting to announce the boycott and spread the word to parents at other schools. The meeting was advertised by flyers posted in playgrounds and by word of mouth. News of the boycott trickled out and took hold most firmly in schools that are known for their alternative styles education.I was going to try to parse this article but there is so much meat here I'm cross posting the entire thing.
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“NO” TO TESTING: MORE AND MORE CITY PARENTS BOYCOTT STANDARDIZED TESTS
by Nell Gluckman
Posted on 07 May 2013.
Posted on 07 May 2013.
On April 17, when most third through eighth graders in New York State were taking their second day of an English language arts test, one sixth grader at the Institute for Collaborative Education on the Lower East Side, had a different task. She was working on a 1,427-word letter to her teacher explaining why she wasn’t among her peers.
“I am boycotting the test because I don’t like the way the DOE uses the test results,” wrote 11-year-old Hope K. C., whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. “The kids who take the test are being used like guinea pigs in a lab. I do
