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Citizens for Public Schools, other organizations ask Massachusetts education officials to obtain waiver to suspend MCAS

Citizens for Public Schools, other organizations ask Massachusetts education officials to obtain waiver to suspend MCAS
Updated Feb 17, 2021;
More than a dozen organizations on Wednesday have sent a letter to Massachusetts education officials and to legislators, urging the state to obtain a federal waiver from the U.S. Department of Education and suspend spring Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System tests.
“We agree with business groups and others who oppose using MCAS results for high-stakes and accountability purposes, but we are absolutely convinced that MCAS testing itself should be suspended,” reads the letter. “Standardized tests have never been an equitable measure of student learning, but in a time of pandemic cannot possibly measure student learning with any validity. Testing will only mean that all students will lose precious learning time, while, disproportionally, Black, Latinx, low-income, English learners and special education students will ....

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#DisruptTexts movement says WSJ misrepresented work

A screenshot of the homepage of #Disrupttexts website. | #DisruptTexts
There s a growing movement known as #DisruptTexts, led by educators who are seeking to promote “anti-racist/anti-bias teaching pedagogy and practices” in the classroom by creating a more inclusive language arts curriculum.
The group s work has recently been the focus of a passionate debate on social media after WSJ children s book critic and author Meghan Cox Gurdon argued in an op-ed Sunday that they are “purging and propagandizing against classic texts.”
“A sustained effort is under way to deny children access to literature. Under the slogan #DisruptTexts, critical-theory ideologues, schoolteachers and Twitter agitators are purging and propagandizing against classic texts everything from Homer to F. Scott Fitzgerald to Dr. Seuss,” Gurdon wrote. “Their ethos holds that children shouldn’t have to read stories written in anything other than the present-day vernacular especially those ....

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