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I know it wasn’t all (or even most) the work of NPE, but I think all of you who are advocates can take credit for the over-testing debate.
“Absolutely. We saw this when Arne Duncan recently made … this staggering statement that standardized testing is sucking the oxygen out of the room in schools. This is the guy who created a million incentives that resulted in local schools upping their testing to these unprecedented levels (there’s more testing now than ever before in our school system). So for this guy to now be saying, “Oh my gosh, we may have jumped the shark” — it’s a really big deal.”
That would not have happened without public school advocates.
5,000 (approximately!) ed reform lobbying groups, a giant US Dept of Ed, all those state ed agencies, and none of them would touch it.
Good work.
http://www.salon.com/2014/09/24/arne_duncans_staggering_statement_why_ed_reformers_are_having_second_thoughts/
Public and charter schools have become institutions of authoritarian abuse. We should no longer support them with taxpayer money until they are rehabilitated into places of authentic learning as recognized by Montessori and professional wisdom. The DOE needs to be deleted and our schools returned to our communities to manage with compassionate learning that honors and respects children.
Institutional Abuse is correct!
The Inmates are running the Asylum…from Arne Duncan on down to the stressed out paranoid administrators and teachers who are punishing children with horrific psychological abuse but too much into self survival and denial to notice. All education, public & charter (except the elite schools of the wealthy) are FUBAR! Keep your children home and unschool them for protection until this tide of social sadism has been exorcised from our public schools.
This posting needs more visibility; Diane, please update us. I can’t make it on the 11th, but I plan to be watching, and I will donate.