Saturday, March 28, 2015

Women Speak

Week of 3/29/15

Top three for the week!

The amazing women of United Opt Out Who Created

An Activist Handbook for the Education Revolution

United Opt Out’s Test of Courage

Edited by:
Morna M. McDermott, United Opt Out National
Peggy Robertson, United Opt Out National
Rosemarie Jensen, United Opt Out National
Ceresta Smith, United Opt Out National

http://dianeravitch.net/2015/03/28/a-book-for-activists/

Eleven Reasons to Refuse Standardized Testing for Your Children

By: Maine Badass Teacher Jacky Boyd

http://badassteachers.blogspot.com/2015/03/eleven-reasons-to-refuse-standardized_24.html

The Momma Bears of Tennessee

http://www.mommabears.org/blog/the-testing-task-farce-of-tennessee

Sunday, March 22, 2015

Women Speak

Week of 3/22/15

Top three for the week!

Valerie Strauss

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/03/20/you-do-not-speak-for-our-children/

Stephanie Simon

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/03/cyber-snoops-track-students-116276.html

Akosua Agyema

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/video/I-Team_-Special-Ed-Teacher-Says-District-Retaliated-After-Whistleblowing_New-York-297092581.html

Sunday, March 15, 2015

Women Speak

Week of 3/15/15

Top three for the week!

Opting Out of Governor Cuomo’s Attack on Public Education

By: Bianca Tanis

https://biancatanis.wordpress.com/2015/03/

The Powerful, Enforced Silence Around Standardized Testing

By: Dr. Mercedes Schneider

https://deutsch29.wordpress.com/2015/03/14/the-powerful-enforced-silence-around-standardized-testing/

Empathy v. Criticism: How to respond to those who think more testing is needed to improve education

By: Dr. Denisha Jones

http://www.empowermagazine.com/empathy-v-criticism-respond-think-testing-needed-improve-public-education/

Sunday, March 8, 2015

Women Speak

Week of 3/8/15

Top three for the week!

Kristin Phatak and Heather Poland

http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2015/mar/06/stringers-test-opt-out-party-chula-vista-parents/#

Kristin Phatak

BAT Co-Founder Priscilla Sanstead

Sharing one of the most powerful memes on Twitter and Facebook created by Sue Goncracovs

Francisco Ortiz, Kimberly Mayfield Lynch and Kitty Kelly Epstein

OP-ED: Our Schools Need Latino Teachers

http://postnewsgroup.com/blog/2015/02/24/op-ed-schools-need-latino-teachers/

Kimberly Mayfield-Lynch is chair of Black Women Organized for Political Action and chair of the Education Department at Holy Names University.

Francisco Ortiz is a Bay Area teacher and a graduate student researching issues of Latino teacher recruitment.

Kitty Kelly Epstein hosts Education Today on KPFA – FM and writes on issues involving education and urban policy. (A Different View of Urban Schools (2012) Peter Lang).