More than a score : the new uprising against high-stakes testing / edited by Jesse Hagopian.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index.

The testocracy versus the education spring / Jesse Hagopian -- Teachers : Our destination is not on the MAP / Jesse Hagopian -- Dear Brandon: an open letter to a student on what the MAP boycott meant to me / Mallory Clarke -- "Well, how did I get here?": the many paths to "no" / Barbara Madeloni -- The rise of the Badass Teachers Association / Mark Naison -- Standardized testing and students of color / Brian Jones -- Testing nightmares / Karen Lewis -- Defending young children / Nancy Carlsson-Paige -- "Dream bigger" / interview with Mary Cathryn D. Ricker -- Salt of the Earth School: "They can't break us" / interview with Jia Lee -- Ice the ISAT: boycotting the test under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's regime / Sarah Chambers -- The international [high school]: arise ye over-tested teachers / Rosie Frascella and Emily Giles -- Students : Testing assumptions: zombies, flunkies, and the Providence Student Union / Cauldierre McKay, Aaron Regunberg, and Tim Shea -- 518-455-4767 / Amber Kudla -- Walk out! / Alexia Garcia -- Poems / Malcolm London and Falmata Seid -- Being a future teacher in the midst of the movement / Stephanie Rivera -- Student revolution / Nikhil Goyal -- Parents : Long Island opts out: my story of resistance / Jeanette Deutermann -- Playing for the schools we want / Kirstin Roberts -- Forget teaching to the test: Castle Bridge boycotts it! / Dao X. Tran -- "Opting out of the corporate conversation" / interview with Peggy Robertson -- From "shaming and blaming" to the "moral agenda for our time" / interview with Helen Gym -- Administrators and Advocates : The word that made me an activist / John Kuhn -- Building the movement against high-stakes testing / Monty Neill -- "Dear President Obama, We need literature over test prep": discovering a deeper meaning in life / Alma Flor Ada -- "It was the right thing to do" / interview with Carol Burris -- "What could be": inquiry and the performance assessment alternative / interview with Phyllis Tashlik.

"For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation's youth and educators. Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the "reformers" today find themselves facing the largest revolt in US history against high-stakes standardized testing. More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews--accounts of personal courage and trenchant insights--from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education."--Page 4 of cover.