Monday, February 18, 2013

ANNOUNCING: COMMUNITY GROUP “RE-THINKING TESTING: MID-HUDSON” FORMS TO SPREAD AWARENESS ABOUT IMPACTS OF HIGH STAKES TESTING


Educators, parents, and community members have joined together to build a public information campaign about the negative impacts of high-stakes testing. Race to the Top (RTTT), along with state and federal disinvestment and a tax "cap", are creating unprecedented changes in how we educate and how we fund education in our state.
Re-thinking Testing seeks to:

1. Educate parents and community members about how high-stakes testing hurts students, schools, and public education;


2. Inform community members about the fiscal impact of high-stakes testing on school budgets  and on their school taxes; and


3. Examine how high-stakes testing takes away resources from other educational and after-school programs that the local community values

Re-Thinking Testing is cosponsor of the upcoming Carol Burris talk at SUNY New Paltz: Some Big Myths that Guide School “Reform”: The Regents Reform Agenda, Wednesday, February 20, 2013, at 4:30 in the Coykendall Science Center Auditorium. Dr. Burris is the co-author of the Principals’ Letter in Opposition to APPR. She is co-author of Detracking for Excellence and Equity and Opening the Common Core: How to Bring ALL Children to College and Career Readiness. She was named Outstanding Educator in 2010 by the School Administrators Association of New York State. For more information contact Nancy Schniedewind, Humanistic/Multicultural Education Program, SUNY New Paltz, 257-2827.

To learn more about “Re-Thinking Testing: Mid-Hudson”, visit our website, find us on Facebook, email ReThinkingTestingMidHudson@gmail.com, or call KT Tobin at 845.206.8853.

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