Teachers At Two Seattle High Schools Refuse To Administer ‘Unwanted’ Standardized Test

[Report1212]

Bravo. Let's hope it's a movement. Remember, in Finland they eliminated high stakes testing.

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In Seattle, teachers at Garfield High School actually decided to refuse to administer the local “Measures of Academic Progress” (MAP) standardized test. Soon after, teachers at nearby Ballard High School decided to refuse to administer the test as well.

The teachers write in an open letter that the test “remains unwanted and unneeded and unsolicited by SPS [Seattle Public Schools] professional classroom educators,” and that it has no bearing on the students’ graduation or course credits.

Read more: http://boldprogressives.org/teachers-at-two-seattle-high-schools-refuse-to-administer-unwanted-standardized-test/

[ananda]

1. I've been thinking about this.

Teachers can stand up against bad education practice, if they do so in a large organized way.

Way to go, Seattle!

[Report1212]

3. What I heard was that in Britain

There was a widespread revolt by teachers against testing about a decade ago, which forced the government to rebuild the curriculum.

[BadgerKid]

4. Our new standards will do this to some extent

in the next few years.

[Report1212]

5. Britain or US? nt

[Follow The Money]

2. It's a movement!

A Standardized Testing Revolt
http://prospect.org/article/standardized-testing-revolt