Saturday, October 13, 2012

Testing resistance heating up in Chicago Parents United for Responsible Education

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Testing resistance heating up in Chicago

FairTest’s Monty Neill, the undisputed leader of the national testing resistance movement, will be in Chicago on Friday, November 2, for a citywide strategy session on fighting Chicago’s standardized testing insanity, and a public forum on testing issues at 7 pm at Xavier University.
Anti-testing fever has been heating up ever since the CTU strike, where the issue of excessive and unfair testing and test-based “accountability” as forcefully and effectively raised by marchers and their picket signs.
I spoke at a forum last week organized by CPS parents from Drummond Montessori School who are interested