Jesse Hagopian “Reframes the Purpose of Education” and Testing at NBC’s Nationally Broadcast “Education Nation” Program | I AM AN EDUCATOR

Jesse Hagopian “Reframes the Purpose of Education” and Testing at NBC’s Nationally Broadcast “Education Nation” Program | I AM AN EDUCATOR:

Jesse Hagopian “Reframes the Purpose of Education” and Testing at NBC’s Nationally Broadcast “Education Nation” Program

By I AM AN EDUCATOR on October 9, 2013

Asked by NBC nightly news host, Brian Williams, “You’re not against testing are you?”, I responded in this way on live, nationally broadcast, T.V. (See MSNBC: “teacher Jesse Hagopian from Seattle talks during Education Nation’s Teacher Town Hall about standardized tests and ‘reframing the purpose of education.’”)

I appeared on a panel for the “Teacher Town Hall” at the fourth annual “Education Nation” Summit–A gathering that received criticism from Education Week writer Anthony Cody, and many others, for all too often excluding the voices of educators and critics of the corporate education reform agenda.

Coverage of my participation at Education Nation included:

• Education Week wrote of Josh Starr, Randi Weingarten, and my contribution to Education Nation as a “Clash in NYC” with testing advocates.
• NEA Today—the news magazine of the largest teachers’ union in the country—wrote:
  “The fourth annual Education Nation Summit is underway in New York, and one of the stars