Comments on: Proud to be a Garfield Bulldog http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/proud-to-be-a-garfield-bulldog/ 25 Years of Teaching for Social Justice Fri, 10 May 2013 19:27:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: cotavoce http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/proud-to-be-a-garfield-bulldog/#comment-2142 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 22:42:21 +0000 http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/?p=1121#comment-2142 Please sign the following petition to President Obama to ask him to eliminate high-stakes standardized testing in our schools. Across the country, the tests are narrowing our curriculum, pushing out music, art, science, history, even recess. This is not the way to a world-class education system.

https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/eliminate-high-stakes-testing-american-education-system/xdKMgWp9

The petition needs to gather 100,000 signatures by February 22. If it does, the White House has to give a response to the public. Please pass it on! The hijacking of our education system by test-obsessed non-educators will only end if we all speak out.

]]> By: wgersen http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/2013/01/12/proud-to-be-a-garfield-bulldog/#comment-1888 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 20:37:15 +0000 http://rethinkingschoolsblog.wordpress.com/?p=1121#comment-1888 My hunch: the RTTT “carrot” is sticking it to the students and teachers…

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