LOVE IT! Seattle teachers: No standardized tests!

[Iwillnevergiveup]

http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2013/0111/Standardized-test-backlash-Some-Seattle-teachers-just-say-no

As a teacher, this is such wonderful news to me. Hopefully, it begins a huge movement that gets rid of these stupid, meaningless, money-wasting, time-wasting experiments in terror.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Amen.

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“Our teachers have come together and agreed that the MAP test is not good for our students, nor is it an appropriate or useful tool in measuring progress,” said Kris McBride, academic dean and testing coordinator at Garfield High. “Additionally, students don’t take it seriously. It produces specious results and wreaks havoc on limited school resources during the weeks and weeks the test is administered.”

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