UK Teachers Take a Stand

Posted in Standards and Evaluation on May 14, 2010 - 03:03 PM

My first response to news that thousands (yes thousands!) of elementary school teachers in the UK will boycott giving their students standardized tests and instead take them on outings or write creative stories is, "It is about time!"

I've long thought that teachers have the most collective power to bring about change if they acted simultaneously to challenge norm referenced tests that rank young kids and mechanize the art of teaching and learning.

The full article can be found UK teachers boycott tests.

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power, standardized tests, activism, civil disobedience

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