Movement Of Rank & File Educators
is committed to building a union that EDUCATES, AGITATES and MOBILIZES its membership. Under the name of Education Reform, the High Stakes Movement is destroying public education and attempting to bust the teachers union. Join us in a discussion of the origins and effects of High Stakes Testing and Evaluation.
EDUCATE!Join us in reading selected chapters from Au’s, Unequal By Design and Ravitch’s, Death and Life of American’s Great American School System (see details on the back)
AGITATE!How are high stakes tests racists? How do standardized tests push out students of color and actively segregate schools? How has our union leadership failed to respond to the issues of high stakes testing and evaluation?
MOBILIZE! Develop materials for distribution around the truth behind the origins and effects of high stakes testing for students and evaluation for teachers and schools.
May 24th , 4:30 – 6pm,
The Racist Roots of High Stakes Testing
CUNY Graduate Center – Room 5414
The Sessions
The Racist Roots of Standardized Testing
Thursday, May 24th 4:30 – 6pm
Unequal by Design, Wayne Au
Chapter 2: We are All Widgets
The Trouble With Accountability
Thursday, June 7th , 5 – 7pm
The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch
Chapter 8: The Trouble with Accountability
Chapter 9: What would Mrs. Ratliff do?
Moving Forward
Thursday, June 21st, 5 – 7pm
Unequal by Design, Wayne Au
Epilogue
The Death and Life of the Great American School System, Diane Ravitch
Last Chapter
All sessions will be at
The CUNY Graduate Center
365 5th Avenue, Room 5414
New York, NY 10016
Bring a Photo ID
Email MORE: more@morecaucusnyc.org
Here is a link to the “We are All Widgets” Chapter for the first reading on Thursday – https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=ohhl4rw8mbn4