Teacher Performance Assessment and Pearson: Just Opt Out
This week United Opt Out National stands in solidarity with the UMass teacher educators and the sixty-seven student teachers at UMass Amherst School of Education who together chose to boycott the Teacher Performance Assessment field test via Pearson. Barbara Madeloni, lecturer at UMass and one of the teacher educators who joined the boycott, has recently been told that her contract will not be renewed. Today we share an interview with Barbara Madeloni as she shares her views on the TPA, Common Core and education activism.After reading the interview please take action. Our action for the week of June 3, 2012, is to ask everyone to post at the UMass Amherst School of Education Facebook page as each of us shares our individual thoughts about these
