Thursday
May 08, 2008
This week’s Carnival of Education links to a continuation of the conversation from last week about Carl Chew, the Washington State teacher who refused to administer his state’s standardized tests. This week, Larry Ferlazzo puts Chew’s actions in the larger context of civil disobedience:
I think performing civil disobedience outside of the context of a strategic campaign is indeed often, to use the words in Bill’s post, “arrogant” and “egocentric.” At the risk of sounding too harsh, I think it’s much easier to refuse to give a standardized test then to do the day-to-day and face-to-face organizing of listening and agitating people to develop an effective campaign for more accurate and just student assessments.
Also mentioned, this series in the Columbus Education Association Blog (which featured TEN in its Carnival a few weeks back), examining the legacy of the Nation At Risk report.
The CEA Blog has been fortunate enough to acquire a slightly used Flux Capacitor and retrofit a union-made car for the trip of a lifetime. We asked a number of edu-bloggers the question “What would the American educational landscape be like today if A Nation At Risk were never released?” and loaned them the time machine.
Three have already appeared, all are fascinating. (Eduwonkette’s, Leo Casey’s, and Ed Muir’s.)
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