Category: High-Stakes Testing
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Education Activists Converge on Presidential Debate
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Today, in response to a nationwide attack on public education, supporters of high-quality, democratically controlled, neighborhood public schools are holding events at the first presidential debate in New York, demanding that the candidates respond to concerns about school privatization and unfair funding, and releasing a national public education platform. The organizers of the debate protests belong to Journey for Justice…
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I think the students in our leadership and education policy classes at California State University Sacramento (scholarly and academic purposes) and the readers of Cloaking Inequity (news reporting) will be very interested in this new, ongoing case study where a PARCC, a testing company, is trying to limit the fair use of copyrighted material. Here is…
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Looking forward to being back in Austin in two weeks to speak at a Legislative Briefing and discuss community-based accountability. The Texas AFT, Austin Voices for Education and Youth, and Texans Advocating for Meaningful Student Assessment (TAMSA) invite you to an Education Briefing entitled New Options for Assessment and Accountability. Now that Congress has (theoretically) left NCLB test-and-punish…
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Recently Peter Cunningham made comments disparaging the opt out of testing movement. https://twitter.com/PCunningham57/status/724227872248844288 https://twitter.com/PCunningham57/status/724232058889867265 https://twitter.com/ProfessorJVH/status/724275398876364800 Who is Peter Cunningham? Who pays Peter Cunningham? The answer might and might not surprise you… But first… Peter, no matter how much money you and your billionaire friends spend on the blogosphere, we will still collectively have more voice…
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A revolt involving hundreds of thousands of Americans against the federal and state government has been brewing over the past couple of years. What caused this grassroots revolt? Parents and students have had enough of high-stakes testing required by federal law and implemented by the states and have chosen to “opt out” of the tests.…
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