How mad are some teachers? This mad
The group’s logo
Educators who are sick and tired of being blamed for whatever woes exist in the public education system have banded together in a group named to show their disgust and defiance: the Badass Teachers Association.
In the short time that it has existed — it formed last month — the organization has attracted more than 20,000 members on its Facebook Page and, according toits new website, has begun to form state chapters to, among other things, organize resistance to school reform that focuses on using standardized test scores for high-stakes accountability purposes.
More on The Answer Sheet
Did Arne Duncan rebrand ‘no excuse’ school reform?
Sick of hearing about 'no-excuse' school reform? Read this.
Five lousy lessons Congress is giving to kids
Congress has had a hard time lately getting work done on major education issues (and in this case, lately means years)
Teach For America critics gathering to organize resistance
It's the first ever national gathering of TFA critics. Here's what they plan to do.
Standardized testing scores the public never sees
D.C. public school students take a lot of standardized tests, but the scores, it turns out, are never released.
The group was started by Mark Naison, a professor of African-American studies and history at Fordham University in New York and parent activist Priscilla Sanstead and teacher Marla Massey Kilfoyle of New York. (I have published