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Opting Out - The Story of the Parents' Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools (Paperback)
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Opting Out - The Story of the Parents' Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools (Paperback)
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The rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation
has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central
to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar
reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar
for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection,
such as inBloom. In New York, the two parent/teacher organizations
that have been most effective are Long Island Opt Out and New York
State Allies for Public Education. Over the last four years, they
and other groups have focused on having parents refuse to submit
their children to the testing regime, arguing that if students
don't take the tests, the results are't usable. The opt-out
movement has been so successful that 20% of students statewide and
50% of students on Long Island refused to take tests. In Opting
Out, two parent leaders of the opt-out movement-Jeanette Deutermann
and Lisa Rudley-tell why and how they became activists in the two
organizations. The story of parents, students, and teachers
resisting not only high-stakes testing but also privatization and
other corporate reforms parallels the rise of teachers across the
country going on strike to demand increases in school funding and
teacher salaries. Both the success of the opt-out movement and
teacher strikes reflect the rise of grassroots organizing using
social media to influence policy makers at the local, state, and
national levels.
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