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Monday, February 25, 2013

Schools Matter: The Best Things about the Anti-Testing Backlash in Texas and Elsewhere

Schools Matter: The Best Things about the Anti-Testing Backlash in Texas and Elsewhere:


The Best Things about the Anti-Testing Backlash in Texas and Elsewhere

What is the greatest recent victory in the backlash against standardized testing that has terrified “reformers” as it has reached a "crescendo?"

A)     The Garfield High School teachers’ boycott of the administration of standardized tests.
B)      The 120 Massachusetts professors’ protest against standardized testing.
C)      The Chicago, Georgia, and New York protests that inspired the Massachusetts stand.
D)     The 818 Texas school districts that have joined the protest against bubble-in excesses and the thousands who joined the Save Texas Schools rally in Austin?

I am too biased to answer such a question.  For decades, top Oklahoma teachers and students fled to the better schools in Texas. However, many became trapped in the Texas testing mania and returned with horror storie