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“This is a test”: Educating to End the School-to-Grave-Pipeline in Ferguson...
“We were at graduation, me and him, and we were talking. He said he wasn’t going to end up like some people on the streets. He was going to get an education.” —Hershel Johnson, a friend Michael Brown’s...
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Hands Up, Don’t Test: Police brutality and the repurposing of education
While in Boston speaking about my recently released edited book, More Than a Score: The New Uprising Against High-Stakes Testing, I had the wonderful opportunity to meet with the great EduShyster, who...
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Resistance to High Stakes Tests Serves the Cause of Equity in Education: A...
Twelve national civil rights organizations released a statement today in opposition to parents and students who opt out of high-stakes standardized testing–what has now become a truly mass direct...
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Six Reasons Why the Opt Out Movement is Good for Students and Parents of Color
By Jesse Hagopian, first published in The Progressive magazine Corporate education reformers who seek to reduce teaching and learning to a single score are beginning to realize they are losing the...
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Black to School: The Rising Struggle to Make Black Education Matter
A world where Black lives matter and Black education is empowering will not come easily. It won't be funded by benevolent philanthropists. It won't be promoted by corporate lobbyists or legislated by...
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#BlackLivesMatterAtSchool: Hundreds of educators across Seattle to wear...
Educators in Seattle are starting off the school year dressed for success. In the fist action of this scale, many hundreds of Seattle teachers, counselors, instructional assistants, paraprofessionals,...
View ArticleSolidarity with Black Lives Matter at School Week: Nationally Renowned...
We, the undersigned, are writing in support of a new uprising for racial justice that is being organized by educators around the country who have declared February 5-9, 2018, “Black Lives Matter at...
View ArticleVideo: Black Lives Matter Holds National Week of Action At Schools
The Real News Network Public school teachers Jesse Hagopian of Seattle and Cristina Duncan Evans of Baltimore discuss the Feb. 5-10 week of action aimed at bringing social justice into classrooms...
View Article#ArmMeWith Solidarity Against the NRA & Militarizing Schools
A new student movement has risen up to challenge gun violence and the political power of the NRA. As the students prepare for school walkouts around the country, Jesse Hagopian, an Ethnic Studies...
View ArticleVIDEO–“Expel The Police”: TBS’“Full Frontal with Samantha Bee” hosts Monique...
The popular late night comedy news show, Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, just ran a powerful expose on the brutality of police against students in school. As they wrote of the program, Correspondent...
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