Book: More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Posted by on May 25, 2015
More Than a Score
The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing
Education Kids & Parents Racism & Civil Rights
EDITED BY JESSE HAGOPIAN, FOREWORD BY DIANE RAVITCH, INTRODUCTION BY ALFIE KOHN, AFTERWORD BY WAYNE AU
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.
Along with the voices of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and grassroots education activists, the book features renowned education researchers and advocates, including Diane Ravitch, Alfie Kohn, Wayne Au, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Karen Lewis, Carol Burris, and Mark Naison.
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