NBC’s “Education Nation” to include Jesse Hagopian on MAP test boycott–Live on Sun, Oct. 6, 12:00-2:00 PM ET
NBC’s annual “Education
Nation” summit is a three day extravaganza exploring “What It Takes” for the nation “to ensure students are successfully prepared for college, career and beyond” as they put it. This should be an important opportunity to raise the big questions about the direction of public education. NBC, however, has come under increasing fire for marginalizing the voices of educators who are critical of the corporate education reform agenda.
Nation” summit is a three day extravaganza exploring “What It Takes” for the nation “to ensure students are successfully prepared for college, career and beyond” as they put it. This should be an important opportunity to raise the big questions about the direction of public education. NBC, however, has come under increasing fire for marginalizing the voices of educators who are critical of the corporate education reform agenda. 
While not allowing many important voices of those who oppose these corporate reforms on the panel discussions at Education Nation, NBC has agreed to highlight the story of the MAP test boycott in Seattle and will call on me to speak about it at the “Teacher Town Hall” event. It is clear that the power of the testing boycott could not be denied, as it has become a source of inspiration for a growing national movement to reclaim public education from those who seek to reduce the intellectual process of teaching and learning to single number–and then use that score to close schools, fire teachers, or stop students from graduating.Spread the word and tune in to watch my challenge to the high-stakes testing!
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