Its unlikely to be valid in terms of what its trying to do. I do believe there is ability. Parents who come into kindergarten, when you have a child they always say children will develop at their own weight and age. Whats important is that theyre thriving and happy and then all the sudden that rhetoric comes to a halt and if you dont learn to read by third grade youre doomed forever and wont ever go to college. I hope you buy the book and give it to all the parents you work with. I was reading about this thing called a racial button law where the children are in control of their own content because their children and they put content online and the idea is they own their content and could get rid of it. Its being proposed in other states as well but it is here. However it doesnt affect what happens in the rooms of the school so when kids are taking their test the system knows whether their parents are divorced. They dont take into account good days or bad days or that we know the kids
Garfield high school in seattle takes a critical look at standardized testing. This is about an hour, 20 minutes. [applause] thank you. Welcome everybody for braving the elements in making it up here. My name is brian jones. Im an educator and activist in new york city and as jason said im going to moderate our event to just say a few words about the event and we will kick about. I will introduce our panel of some of them kick it off and we will have discussion after that. We are here, no doubt you understand for a very important reason. A, to mourn the decision, the fateful decision to not run Marshawn Lynch on the oneyard line last night he. [laughter] v to protect Jesse Hagopian from future pepper spray incident. C to talk to pineapples. Or d to celebrate the launch of this book more than a score the new uprising against highstakes testing. Now obviously c is a distractor question. Theres nothing relevant theyre obviously so you can eliminate that one right off the bat but a a b are
Students achieve more. What is the impact of having this comprehensive dossier of information on the student that the readout of the balances this kid is a potential drop out. That is the kind of question where the law is so far away from what we are getting at and even in Public Opinion theres a lot of division about words that helpful when would we like our kids to be able to tear up their record when they graduate high school and what about nonpersonally identifiable as we talk about changing policies to reduce dropping out in general. So its very complex and totally fascinating and a little scary as well. It depends on where you are sitting. Extremely scary. Saves 25 years from now and you are on a book tour with the test, the sequel. What would you be talking about . Its a great question. I would love to be talking about how the next generation of assessments really open up our eyes to another persons capabilities and allow us to that each student would be graduating with the best