Tag: Superintendent Of Public Instruction

Jan 21

Making a Case Against High Stakes Testing

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
January 21, 2011

What if you had the chance to speak to your state’s legislators and help them understand some of the finer points of why high stakes standardized testing, especially when your state doesn’t even have a handle on which test are aligned to which set of standards, just isn’t a good idea? Well, one of our …

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Nov 12

Letter to WA State Superintendent of Public Schools

By Alfonso Gonzalez in Ed News
November 12, 2010

One of our high school teachers wrote a letter to our state’s superintendent of public schools sharing her concerns over the state’s decisions for testing Science this year and next year. I asked her if I could share her letter because the concerns that she raised are so blatant and Maren wrote such a great …