Here is the video of an outstanding discussion at the Network for Public Education conference, featuring Seattle teacher-leader Jesse Hagopian and Rita Greene, education director of the Seattle NAACP.
I was in the audience, sitting next to Jose Luis Vilson. I was lucky to get a seat, as the room was packed, and people were sitting in the aisles and lined up against the back wall.
Jesse explained the racist history of standardized testing, and Rita Greene described why the Seattle NAACP had endorsed the Opt Out movement. She encouraged people to work with their local NAACP, since the national organized was supporting standardized testing.
It was a very important and powerful presentation.
Here is the discussion that followed.
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A wonderful presentation and discussion. It is also relevant to the events in Baltimore. It was good to hear that both of the presentors are historically informed about the origins and largely unchanged use of standarded tests to assign people to confirm prejudices in the larger society.
What a different situation we’d have in our country if Jesse Hagopian was Sec. of Education in the White House, no?!
Could you possible find out when ‘scores’ will actually be available to individual schools…and if the contract (NM) actually states when these scores, with answers will be available for review by the teachers?
I have been led to believe that PARCC will actually tell teachers, but I am hitting walls…surprise, surprise
Brandy, as matters now stand, you will get scores in the late summer or early fall. You will not get student answers. You will get only scores. You will learn nothing you didn’t already know.