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

More Than a Score The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing with editor Jesse Hagopian

Friday, March. 6 at 4:30pm: United Teachers Losa Angeles (UTLA) in L.A. Saturday, March 7 from 8am-3pm: ARE 2015 Conference, San Diego Across the country, students are walking out, parents are opting their children out, and teachers are refusing to administer detrimental exams.  More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes 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, an fueling a national movement to reclaim and transform public education. "Those who support public education and a respected teaching profession can find hope in the stories of resistance in this book." —Diane Ravitch  "The eagerly engaged voices assembled here present an action plan to combat the increase in high-stakes standardized testing currently plaguing K–12 education…the focus is on doing rather than shouting, and each essay in this anthology is a blueprint for civic action….The contributors build on Hagopian’s optimism for the blooming of an “educational spring” and make this book exceptional." —Publishers Weekly Starred Review "For anyone who wonders what’s powering the virulent opposition to standardized testing, Common Core standards and so-called education reform, Jesse Hagopian’s new book, More Than a Score, will be an illuminating read." —Seattle Times "More Than a Score is an exciting book, filled with anger, passion and creative strategizing over ways to defeat standardized testing. It’s also a call to arms and a well-argued plea for educational equity and a thoughtful defense of public education, the teaching profession and student-centered learning." —Truthout JESSE HAGOPIAN teaches history and is the Black Student Union adviser at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. He is an associate editor of Rethinking Schools, a founding member of Social Equality Educators, and winner of the 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of Year” award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. Hagopian is a contributing author to Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation and 101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History, and writes regularly for Truthout, Common Dreams, Socialist Worker, Black Agenda Report, and the Seattle Times Op-Ed page.