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Support Chicago Students’ Test Boycott Tomorrow
April 23, 2013 By 1 Comment
From PURE: « Students opting out of PSAE PSAT for 4-23-13: Support the student PSAE test boycott Tomorrow, CPS high school students organized by Chicago Students Organizing to Save Our Schools and VOYCE will boycott the second day of the state high school exam, the Prairie State Achievement Exam (PSAE). The first testing day includes the ACT […]
A round-up of some important stories out there on testing
April 17, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Educate yourself on the #optout issues dujour, in New York state
April 15, 2013 By 1 Comment
Big day in Albany, NY tomorrow, #LIriseup
April 15, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Intimidation from officials at the NYDE for #optout
April 14, 2013 By 5 Comments
This from someone on Facebook: In NY, the following information was recently passed on to local teacher’s unions… and the fear continues: –>Locals and individual union members who advise parents or students to “opt out” of state tests may face risks. –>A teacher who, in conversations with students or parents, takes a position on testing […]
My little advocate says “checkmate”
April 10, 2013 By 17 Comments
We are less than a week away from the state assessments in New York State and my oldest received the annual state testing notice informing parents children should get a good night’s sleep, eat breakfast, and of course bring plenty of #2 pencils. Well aware of our family’s stance on high-stakes testing, she decided to […]
A parent sends word from CAVA that optouts are happening
March 20, 2013 By 1 Comment
Typing with a broken left wrist. Very slow, so let’s make this easy. A concerned CA parent sent me some documents they received from administration from the California Virtual Academy, where her child attends. Does this tell us anything? I don’t know. Apparently, some discussion within CAVA is occurring about opting out of the CST, […]
Good example of why #optout is a great strategy
February 19, 2013 By Leave a Comment
And this from a Johns Hopkins computer science course, from BoingBoing: Johns Hopkins computer science prof Peter Fröhlich grades his students’ tests on a curve — the top-scoring student gets an A, and the rest of the students are graded relative to that brainiac. But last term, his students came up with an ingenious, cooperative […]
Beware the fair-weather foils of #HST
January 18, 2013 By Leave a Comment
Here’s a great story on NPR about the Seattle test boycott. By the way, have you heard our interview with Seattle teacher Jessie Hagopian? Well, you should. You know, within the circles I run, there’s a lot of support out there for the various schools in the Seattle area who’ve taken this very courageous move. […]
@thechalkface and @slekar, At the Chalk Face, 5PM EDT today, talking test data and #optout
January 13, 2013 By Leave a Comment
@thechalkface and @slekar, At the Chalk Face, 5PM EDT today, talking test data and #optout Join us at 5PM EDT today (one hour earlier, sorry). We’re talking with LA educator Dr. Mercedes Schneider who demolishes school evaluation data. Then, onto the opt out at Garfield HS in Seattle. Chat’s open, live tweet @thechalkface.
Another taste of test abstention data
As we continue to sift through the data from the survey, I wanted to offer the reader another taste. Here’s the list of tests refused this year. Now, I’ve learned two things from this. One, a great variety of assessments. And two, are you kidding me? How many products do we need and how much […]