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[silversorceress]

At the Capitol Building in Austin Texas with Texans for Public Education. #austintx #atx #AFT #TFT #mcallenaft #texascapitolbuilding #texansforpubliceducation #capitol #standupforpublicschools (at Texas State Capitol)

[joseamares]

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[ragingchicken]

Standardized Tests Have Always Been About Keeping People in Their Place

Standardized Tests Have Always Been About Keeping People in Their Place

There are some things that can’t be unseen. America’s history of standardized testing is one of them. Today, critics from all sides of the political spectrum decry the overuse of high stakes tests while paradoxically championing them for accountability purposes – especially for schools serving minority students. Civil rights organizations that last year opposed testing have suddenly come to…

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Pennsylvania Breathes Sigh of Relief As Crappy GOP Budget Becomes Law

Pennsylvania Breathes Sigh of Relief As Crappy GOP Budget Becomes Law

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Steven Singer’s GadflyOnTheWallBlog. Check out his great work documenting the attacks on public education and the teachers, parents, and students who are fighting back. Check out all his work HERE. The majority won in Pennsylvania this week. After 9 months of bipartisan bickering, the state finally has a 2015-16 budget. And it’s almost exactly the…

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I Was a Radical Republican – For About a Week – And I Didn’t Change a Single Progressive View

I Was a Radical Republican – For About a Week – And I Didn’t Change a Single Progressive View

I do not like Ronald Reagan. I own no guns. Back in high school I won a debate arguing for pro-choice. Trickle Down sounds more to me like a bladder condition than an economic theory. So why was it that last week so many right wingers were retweeting me on Twitter? Did I say “retweeting”? They were taking my words and memes and sending them out to the Twitterverse as their own thoughts with a…

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Fewer Resources, Harder Tests: Common Core in the Last Days of Obama

Fewer Resources, Harder Tests: Common Core in the Last Days of Obama

The bell hadn’t even rung to begin class yet, but Ce Ce already had enough. She saw the pile of standardized test look-a-like sheets on the front desk and immediately asked if she could go to in-school suspension. I’m not kidding. She’d prefer to spend the day in silence doing homework isolated from the rest of the class than practicing high stakes testing with her peers. And she’s not alone.…

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Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Manager is a Longtime Corporate Education Reformer

Hillary Clinton’s Campaign Manager is a Longtime Corporate Education Reformer

Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on Steven Singer’s GadflyOnTheWallBlog. Check out his great work documenting the attacks on public education and the teachers, parents, and students who are fighting back. Check out all his work HERE. Meet John Podesta. He’s a Washington lobbyist working hard to support high stakes tests, Common Core and charter schools. He’s also Hillary Clinton’s…

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