Garfield high school in seattle takes a critical look at standardized testing. This is about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] thank you. Welcome everybody for braving the elements in making it up here. My name is brian jones. Im an educator and activist in new york city and as jason said im going to moderate our event to just say a few words about the event and we will kick about. I will introduce our panel of some of them kick it off and we will have discussion after that. We are here, no doubt you understand for a very important reason. A, to mourn the decision, the fateful decision to not run Marshawn Lynch on the oneyard line last night he. [laughter] v to protect Jesse Hagopian from future pepper spray incident. C to talk to pineapples. Or d to celebrate the launch of this book more than a score the new uprising against highstakes testing. Now obviously c is a distractor question. Theres nothing relevant theyre obviously so you can eliminate that one right off the bat but a a b are
Students achieve more. What is the impact of having this comprehensive dossier of information on the student that the readout of the balances this kid is a potential drop out. That is the kind of question where the law is so far away from what we are getting at and even in Public Opinion theres a lot of division about words that helpful when would we like our kids to be able to tear up their record when they graduate high school and what about nonpersonally identifiable as we talk about changing policies to reduce dropping out in general. So its very complex and totally fascinating and a little scary as well. It depends on where you are sitting. Extremely scary. Saves 25 years from now and you are on a book tour with the test, the sequel. What would you be talking about . Its a great question. I would love to be talking about how the next generation of assessments really open up our eyes to another persons capabilities and allow us to that each student would be graduating with the best
34yearold daron wint was arraigned today on firstdegree murder charges. Wint is accused of extorting money from his former employer then killing him his wife, his young son, and their housekeeper, and then torching home. But investigators believe that wint did not act alone and justice correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter according to the arrest warrant for daron wint, 10yearold Philip Savopoulus died alone in a bedroom on the second floor of his familys washington, d. C. Home. Injuries listed in the Court Documents suggest he was stabbed and bushed by a fire that started in the room. His body was on the charred remains of a queensize bed. His father, savvas savopoulus, his mother, amy and housekeeper vera figeroa were found in an adjacent bedroom. All died from bluntforce and sharpforce injuries. Investigators say the horror for the four victims began on may 13 when wint and possibly others held them hostage at the home. While the family was being held captive, cour
Into the investigation into the deadly plane crash in france and the final moments of the illfated flight. 20 minutes of nonstop news continues with this. Held hostage. Someone hijacked a south Jersey School districts Computer System bringing things to a screeching halt. Get this the hackers were demanding ransom to restore things to normal. The hack attack is happening in the swedesboro in Gloucester County. It crippled their Computer System setting them back for weeks. Nbc10 south Jersey Bureau sidney bureau is live. The feds are investigating. Was any important student information stolen . Reporter thankfully the answer is no. Any Sensitive Information did not come directly at the finger tips of these hackers. Were talking about their names, phone numbers and addresses. Thats because the school tells us that all of that information was actually stored on a remote server offsite. So, it was not directly tied to this hack attack. I dont know why they would do that. Reporter a maliciou
34yearold daron wint was arraigned today on firstdegree murder charges. Wint is accused of extorting money from his former employer then killing him his wife, his young son, and their housekeeper, and then torching home. But investigators believe that wint did not act alone and justice correspondent jeff pegues begins our coverage. Reporter according to the arrest warrant for daron wint, 10yearold Philip Savopoulus died alone in a bedroom on the second floor of his familys washington, d. C. Home. Injuries listed in the Court Documents suggest he was stabbed and bushed by a fire that started in the room. His body was on the charred remains of a queensize bed. His father, savvas savopoulus, his mother, amy and housekeeper vera figeroa were found in an adjacent bedroom. All died from bluntforce and sharpforce injuries. Investigators say the horror for the four victims began on may 13 when wint and possibly others held them hostage at the home. While the family was being held captive, cour