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Latino Parents in Chicago to Lead Testing Boycott?
What most parents don’t know is that they have full legal authority to keep their children home, rather than subjecting them to the abusive tests that the numbskull politicians keep shoving on children...
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Refusing the Child Abuse of High Stakes Testing
An ER reader asks (thanks Dr. Kovacs): Is there a specific provision of the law that allows parental/student boycott of the tests? Because schools are penalized if they don’t have a 95% participation...
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Testing Boycott in Illinois
Posted on Common Dreams: Published on Friday, February 22, 2008 by The Daily Herald (Illinois) Boycotting NCLB: In Effort To Protect Students Illinois District Will Refuse Test Dist. 93 Against Giving...
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Carl Chew Story Moves to National Spotlight
If teachers had a union that honored its own Code of Ethics, the inhumane and unethical use of tests and the warping of children’s futures would not be something that teachers, students, and parents...
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South Bronx Middle School Students Boycott Test
from the NY Daily News: Students at IS 318 are protesting ‘meaningless’ tests. Students at a South Bronx middle school have pulled off a stunning boycott against standardized testing.More than 160...
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Writing to Chancellor Klein
Doug Avella lost his teaching job last week because he was the closest social studies teacher to the scene in the South Bronx where a group of youngsters fearlessly challenged the test-punish-test...
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British Teachers Plan to End National Testing
While the spineless AFT and NEA join the Business Roundtable hustle to up the testing ante and thus continue the push to turn American children in helpless drones, the British teachers’ unions have...
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94 Percent of British Teachers Vote to Boycott Testing Next Year
It’s official and not close. Thank God for the moral courage of these teachers to act on their convictions. The boycott is happening unless British officials agree to entirely new assessments. Will the...
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Australian Teachers Vote Unanimously to Boycott Test and Punish Plan
Here is a lesson in applied professional ethics that the prosti-suits who run the NEA and AFT need to learn from: Teachers have voted unanimously for a national ban on national literacy and numeracy...
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Learning Breaks Out in Britain During Testing Boycott That Affects 300,000...
Half of the 600,000 10 and 11 year-old children this morning (in Britain) will be reading books, poetry, and telling stories, rather than taking another meaningless standardized test. The boycott will...
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Three Cheers for Three Days of Testing Boycotts By British Teachers
The British love their traditions, but this Spring’s naming and shaming ritual based on standardized test scores has finally been interrupted. The infamous “league tables” are being thrown into...
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Ontario Teachers Call For 2 Year Moratorium on Standardized Testing in Grades...
Which one of the prostituted and top-heavy U. S. teachers’ unions will be the first to follow the ethical and pro-student lead of British and, now, Canadian teachers? From the Ottawa Citizen (ht to...
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FairTest Urges Nation to Join Seattle in Testing Boycott
NationalCenterfor Fair & Open Testingfor further information:Dr. Monty Neill(617) 477-9792Bob Schaeffer(239) 395-6773for immediate release Monday, January 14, 2013*NATIONAL ASSESSMENT REFORM...
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