UnitedOptOut
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Progressive resistance 2 corporate ed reform. We demand equitably funded, democratically based, anti-racist, desegregated public school systems 4 all students.
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Joined August 2011
Standardized Testing is a Tool of White Supremacy
gadflyonthewallblog.com
It’s time we stop using standardized tests to justify treating students of color as inferior and/or subordinate to white children.
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My comrades, I am sharing with you all the decision to begin my campaign to make a run for a seat on the Worcester School Committee. This decision comes after many hours considering some of the serious concerns...
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Unfortunately, we are still living under the these educational malpractice masquerading as education reform. Here’s a copy of my testimony to the ESEA Hearings in 2015: To: Lamar Alexander (TN), Michael B....
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While doing graduate studies at Boston University, under the Teacher Corp Masters Program, I recall one of my professors sharing an experiment that was carried out by a Puerto Rican Psychologist in New York City...
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While a panelist on the Harvard School to Prison Pipeline several years ago, I shared the panel with a Suffolk County Juvenile Court Judge who testified that since the MCAS(Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment...
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Today at 11 EST were discussing VA educators march and rally and the Student Privacy Report Card!
educationtownhall.org
Virginia educators’ demands for funding, staffing, and teacher support, plus Parent Coalition for Student Privacy on the January Education Town Hall BUS ride, Thursday, Jan 31 at 11 a.m. EAST…
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Here’s how NCLB and Race to the Top both helped to pave the way for today’s most embarrassing Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos: Corporate moguls, Bankers and Billionaires used their wealth and influence to...
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LA Teachers Strike is About Charter Schools and High Stakes Testing
gadflyonthewallblog.com
Too many Democrats inside and outside the district don’t support the very idea of public schools. They’d rather boost privatization.
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My first year of teaching at Chandler Magnet School in Worcester, the EAW, our Union, offered a professional development class that provided us educators with the strategy of how to look for signs of abuse and...
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I was invited to a panel at the Press Club in DC, the topic of the conversation was the present day high-stake test and the profit making Charter Enterprise. I followed a Latina Civil Rights staff, who echoed...
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Last year I was invited to a panel at the Press Club in DC, and I began my presentation with the following, “we all know of Albert Einstein, the genius mind that he was, but did you know that Albert Einstein was...
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Here’s what the Massachusetts voters should consider this coming election. Last year during the Question 2 referendum, Governor Charlie Baker spent almost the entire time on TV telling his constituents that “our...
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Teacher Autonomy – An Often Ignored Victim of High Stakes Testing
gadflyonthewallblog.com
Teachers are in the best position to make informed decisions about student learning. The more autonomy you give us, the better we’ll be able to help our students succeed.
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