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
Sorts of challenges within the test. With the performancebased assessment you cant imagine that happening in being mandated for a couple a couple weeks a year unless you had some Crazy Society that was trying to produce a a nation of stat spies. If you integrate teaching and learning and the teachers are engaged in their integrating their own selfworth flexion, i flexion, i think thats really important. I was really struck by the student being prompt by their achievement and how they got where they were. That was a really huge part of it. You can make students do that and that can be part of the outcomes youre trying to assess and create, for sure. Was there anything that while you were in the process of writing this book, changes you as a parent the way you dealt with your daughter . I was inclined in this direction anyway but i was led to downplay her intellectual growth for her social emotional growth. If anything i learned and this i learned and this might be helpful to anyone who
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
Openly criticize the Israeli Occupation of the west bank and gaza. Then a teacher uprising in seattle. [indiscernible] this movement to replace the map with something and accurately measures. Earlier this month, teachers at garfield high in seattle unanimously voted to stop administering a widely used standardized tests. Now the Seattle School district is warning teachers could face a 10day suspensions without pay if they refuse to give the test. We will go to seattle for the latest. All of that and more coming up. This is democracy now , democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. President of and is expected to express his support for a sweeping blueprint for Immigration Reform backed by a Bipartisan Group of senators. The senate plan includes a path to citizenship for the estimated 11 million undocumented people in the u. S. , but also demands tougher border enforcement and a system for tracking those who overstay visas. Some have condemned the plans exclusion of lg
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