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Months later theyre expected to take a test, reading in english. Full paragraphs, comprehension you know to me that is just not unfair. Thats downright abusive. What are you saying to kids who cant actually comprehend what is printed . Imagine if you had to go and take a test in vietnamese. Im sure that all of us would maybe except me would fail. Really exposing how the testmakers and the whole culture around testing has been able to steal the language of our Civil Rights Movement and say this is going to help end racism. No its the opposite. Its going to help entrench it. Thats why we really have to take a stand against and it expose it for what it is. [applause] final question. One theme in the book is the transformative nature of the experience of going through a boycott, that at garfield castlebridge issue around the country peopled find themselves and their communities and schools transformed by the process of this and ....
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Kidding. We were planning on doing that. And we saved their teacher and the black Student Union at garfield now is just won the citys human rights award for leading a march first marching to the precinct demanding that black lives matter and then a walk out the day after there was no indictment of Darren Wilson and theyre becoming leaders not just at the school but for the entire city in defining what black lives matter means. Think its all part of this growing struggle. I just want to say one last thing about the transformative nature of these struggles. I want to just end by reading a quick passage if i can. Theres a chapter in here you should not miss which is by a young woman named amber kudlow who went to a school here in new york state. She was the schools valedictorian and does she have the best grades in the highest test scores she was told by the principal she had to g ....
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Ponder and ponder and choose the plausible answer that thismaker considers incorrect, but where you could probably have a very good discussion about what really is the right answer. And the fact is the standardized test is not a good form of accountability, there is only one purpose to standardized testing, its to say we dont trust teachers. The teachers judgments are not worthy, because i think back to before the era of standardized testing we have always had a little built but never high stakes. The idea was you could trust teachers. If you wanted to know how the student was doing, you would go in and ask the teacher elm teacher knows i if the child can read. They see the child every day. Why would you expect the test to tell you more than the teacher knows . The fact is we already havelet odd conditionability accountability today means punish we know what we need to know through nape. Nape does the sampling tests, releases results, in reading and math, for every state, every other y ....