More Than a Score: Review of a New Book by SPS Teacher
Garfield teacher (and activist) Jesse Hagopian has edited a new book on student testing called More Than a Score: the New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing (with a foreword by Diane Ravitch). The book is a call to action but more than that, a good book for those who want to action but wonder if they can really make a difference. The answer is, you can. Hagopian calls those willing to stand up for opting out, testdefyers. More Than a Score brings together stories of the fight, poems and interviews with leaders about what testing does to students and how to fight for the right assessments and testing. What I really liked were the voices of students because like most of us when we are young, we don't know enough to be scared.