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Great piece.. And Im QUOTED!!! The art of teaching has been trampled on by increasingly frustrating reforms (read: the pointless emphasis on testing, specifically the implementation of the PARCC testing regimen), and the gospel truth that the artists themselves have received the brunt of the fallout. How unfair is that? Teachers in attendance were proudly wearing pins and buttons that demanded “Less testing, more teaching!” One of the most poignant speeches of the night came from a kindergarten teacher who, nervous yet impassioned, delivered a quote that summed up the way all teachers in the district feel: “I am not a teacher anymore.” And they’re not. They aren’t allowed to be, not when everything they do has to rest on a sad attempt at the quantification of learning. And he a knowledges our less testing more teaching pins Alicia Pérez Vilas
Posted on: Sat, 22 Nov 2014 01:16:34 +0000

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