Standardized Testing in Our Public Schools: A Discussion
To Test or Not to Test:
Standardized Testing in Our Public Schools
Standardized Testing in Our Public Schools
Tuesday evening, September 17 at 7:30 PM
Town Hall in Seattle, the Great Hall
7:30 p.m.
Town Hall in Seattle, the Great Hall
7:30 p.m.
In the wake of last spring’s successful boycott of the Measures of Academic Progress test (MAP), by Seattle public school teachers and now with school districts throughout the region continuing to insist that teacher evaluations be partially tied to student test scores, the Seattle Town Hall presents a public forum on the topic.
Join the discussion with four panelists representing a spectrum of opinions who will make arguments for or against standardized testing.
Find out the origin of standardized tests and where they might be headed. Who supports them and why. Why are parents, teachers and students opposed to these bubble tests? What do these “instruments” accurately measure? How do our children benefit from these evaluations? How do education “reformers” use standardized test results to replace public schools with charter schools? And could this happen here?
During this last school year, teachers from Seattle’s Garfield High School stood up to district managers, without a single dissent among its faculty, and refused to give their students the MAP test. Their boycott spread first to other schools in Seattle, and then quickly inspired teachers, parents and students across the country, and eventually