The Forum for Education and Democracy has a nice article by Ann Cook and Phyllis Tashlik summarizing how parents, students, and educators in New York State battled and won a victory against perhaps the most committed proponent of test-driven education in the US, New York State Education commissioner Rick Mills.
While the outcome in NYS was limited to students in publicly supported alternative schools, this is a story of how organizing and political pressure can work to change bad education policies, which should give hope to others, like the folks in California who were rallying against high school exit exams over this past weekend.
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