Badass Teachers Support A Parent's Right to Refuse State Testing
The Leadership Team of the Badass Teachers Association would like to publicly state that we support a parents' right to refuse state testing for their children.
The Leadership Team of the Badass Teachers Association would like to publicly state that we support a parents' right to refuse state testing for their children.
This ED Reform 101 list of articles was originally posted by ateacherspointofview at https://ateacherspointofview.wordpress.com/2015/01/18/collection-of-articles-about-ed-deform-common-core-and-tes
The Badass Teachers Association calls for changes to be made to the Department of Education’s recent legislative proposal to attach student test scores to the effectiveness of new teachers and their credentialing programs.
What We Have Lost. An open letter to Dr. Yohuru Williams
Dear Dr. Williams,
Our Hearts Belong to the Children: We will never surrender. What Education Reformers should know about our commitment to Participatory democracy (By: Dr. Yohuru Williams and Marla Kilfoyle, NBCT)
First published in March 2014 on http://badassteachers.blogspot.com/
In response to a request by Time Magazine reporter Haley Edwards, the Badass Teachers Association Administratiion Group wrote the following reponse to Time's attack on public school teachers. The response was written and edited by Marla Kilfoyle, Melissa Tomlinson, Steven Singer, and Dr. Yohuru Williams;
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