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Why Save Our Schools March is happening Saturday
- 07-29-2011
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
I long wondered why public school teachers sat quietly during the decade-long No Child Left Behind era watching high-stakes standardized test-based reform take hold, leading to a host of damaging unintended consequences (narrowed curriculum and teaching to the test, just to name a few). This Saturday, teachers, along with principals, parents and other activists, quiet no longer, are scheduled to take their concerns to Washington, D.C., with a march intended to let the Obama administration know that they are unhappy with corporate-based school reform that is obsessed with test-based “accountability,” the expansion of charter schools and other measures. I recently asked two march organizers why, now, after all these years, they were speaking out. Here, in a repost, is what they said: (more...)
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