More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1608463923 ISBN 13: 9781608463923

Publisher: Haymarket Books, 2014

Synopsis

For too long so-called education reformers, mostly billionaires, politicians, and others with little or no background in teaching, have gotten away with using standardized testing to punish our nation’s youth and educators.

Now, across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer these detrimental exams. In fact, the reformers” today find themselves facing the largest revolt in US history against high-stakes, standardized testing.

More Than a Score is a collection of essays, poems, speeches, and interviews accounts of personal courage and trenchant insights from frontline fighters who are defying the corporate education reformers, often at great personal and professional risk, and fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education.
Along with the voices of students, parents, teachers, administrators, and grassroots education activists, the book features renowned education researchers and advocates, including Diane Ravitch, Alfie Kohn, Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Karen Lewis, Carol Burris, and Mark Naison.

About this title

About the Author:

Jesse Hagopian, the book’s editor and contributing author, is a teacher at Seattle’s Garfield High School, an editor for Rethinking Schools magazine, and was a leader in the historic boycott of the Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) test of 2013.

Review:

"Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice and face of the movement to stop pointless and punitive high-stakes testing."
–Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, education historian, and bestselling author

"Jesse Hagopian is doing more than teaching history. He is answering history’s call."
–John Young, writer and regular contributor to the Austin Statesman news

"Jesse brings parents, students, and teachers together for the greater good. He is a tireless advocate for his students and his coworkers. His voice is for social justice."
–Bob George, Save Our Schools National Director

"Jesse Hagopian helps students learn from history and then apply those lessons to their lives today."
–Deborah Menkart, Executive Director of Teaching for Change


"Jesse Hagopian brought a rare moment of truth to the corporate-dominated Education Nation show when he spoke on behalf of his colleagues at Garfield High in Seattle. He instantly became the voice and face of the movement to stop pointless and punitive high-stakes testing."
Diane Ravitch, former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Education, education historian, and bestselling author

"Jesse Hagopian is doing more than teaching history. He is answering history’s call."
John Young, writer and regular contributor to the Austin Statesman news

"Jesse brings parents, students, and teachers together for the greater good. He is a tireless advocate for his students and his coworkers. His voice is for social justice."
Bob George, Save Our Schools National Director

"Jesse Hagopian helps students learn from history and then apply those lessons to their lives today."
Deborah Menkart, Executive Director of Teaching for Change

About this edition

• Publisher: Haymarket Books
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1608463923
• ISBN 13: 9781608463923
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336
• Editor: Hagopian Jesse