More than a score : the new uprising against high-stakes testing /
edited by Jesse Hagopian.
- xiii, 322 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-313) and index.
The testocracy versus the education spring / Teachers : Our destination is not on the MAP / Dear Brandon: an open letter to a student on what the MAP boycott meant to me / "Well, how did I get here?": the many paths to "no" / The rise of the Badass Teachers Association / Standardized testing and students of color / Testing nightmares / Defending young children / "Dream bigger" / Salt of the Earth School: "They can't break us" / Ice the ISAT: boycotting the test under Mayor Rahm Emanuel's regime / The international [high school]: arise ye over-tested teachers / Students : Testing assumptions: zombies, flunkies, and the Providence Student Union / 518-455-4767 / Walk out! / Poems / Being a future teacher in the midst of the movement / Student revolution / Parents : Long Island opts out: my story of resistance / Playing for the schools we want / Forget teaching to the test: Castle Bridge boycotts it! / "Opting out of the corporate conversation" / From "shaming and blaming" to the "moral agenda for our time" / Administrators and Advocates : The word that made me an activist / Building the movement against high-stakes testing / "Dear President Obama, We need literature over test prep": discovering a deeper meaning in life / "It was the right thing to do" / "What could be": inquiry and the performance assessment alternative / Jesse Hagopian -- Jesse Hagopian -- Mallory Clarke -- Barbara Madeloni -- Mark Naison -- Brian Jones -- Karen Lewis -- Nancy Carlsson-Paige -- interview with Mary Cathryn D. Ricker -- interview with Jia Lee -- Sarah Chambers -- Rosie Frascella and Emily Giles -- Cauldierre McKay, Aaron Regunberg, and Tim Shea -- Amber Kudla -- Alexia Garcia -- Malcolm London and Falmata Seid -- Stephanie Rivera -- Nikhil Goyal -- Jeanette Deutermann -- Kirstin Roberts -- Dao X. Tran -- interview with Peggy Robertson -- interview with Helen Gym -- John Kuhn -- Monty Neill -- Alma Flor Ada -- interview with Carol Burris -- 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.
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