Tag: student protests

Teachers have to give students the PARCC tests, students are protesting about the PARCC tests, and even teachers have a few issues.

A teacher in Mass. gave her art students an assignment: Show how you feel about standardized tests. Powerful, expressive, haunting stuff here.

The city is mostly calm and peaceful after riots that tore it down and burned it up Monday. Students try to reclaim their identity in the city.

Protests turned violent in northwest Baltimore over the death of Freddie Gray while he was in police custody. Several police officers were hurt.

One elementary school on Chicago's west side has announced that the teachers are refusing to administer the ISAT to their students, in violation of federal law.

A flash mob at Maine West HS in Des Plaines, Ill., joined in a global celebration aimed at ending violence against women and girls.

A very eloquent objection to many school reforms sweeping the country was entered onto the record in Knox County, Tenn., by Ethan Young, a student. Our response follows.

A national movement is picking up steam as parents in several states have made the conscious decision to allow their kids to skip school on standardized test days.

2 NY teachers taught a lesson about the Declaration of Independence using a large scroll modeled after the document in that it was intended to tell a government about the wrongs being inflicted on its subjects.

A student-led protest in Rhode Island, mainly against standardized, high-stakes testing, has convinced a few people that students know what they're talking about.