Corporate pirates that worship at the later of avarice say we don’t exist, but that will not get rid of the movement against high-stakes, rank-and-punish tests.
There has never been more opposition to high stakes standardized testing.
Yet the corporate controlled media is pretending that the resistance is over.
Parents are refusing to let their kids take these tests at the same or even greater numbers than ever.
Fewer states require high stakes tests as graduation exams and/or use them to evaluate their teachers. Across the nation, states are cutting the size of standardized tests or eliminating them altogether. And more state legislatures passed laws explicitly allowing parents to opt their children out of the tests.
Yet Education Week published an article a few days ago called “Anti-Test Movement Slows to a Crawl.”
I think we have different definitions of “Slows” and “Crawl.”
That may not be surprising since we also seem to have different definitions of “Anti-Test.”
The Opt Out Movement is not “Anti-Test.” It is anti-high stakes standardized test.
It is against the…
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