The Testing Resistance and Reform Movement

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ID9201668
AuthorsMonty Neill (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume67
Issue10
Pages8
Publication date2016-03-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMonthly Review (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0027-0520 • E-ISSN: 0027-0520
PublisherMonthly Review Foundation (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.14452/mr-067-10-2016-03_2
OpenAlexW2295404818
LanguageEN
Citations received7

In the spring of 2015, more than 620,000 students refused to take state standardized exams. The numbers were stunning in some places: 240,000 in New York; 110,000 in New Jersey; 100,000 in Colorado; 50,000 in Washington; 44,000 in Illinois; 20,000 in Oregon and Florida; 10,000 each in New Mexico and Rhode Island. Statewide, the New York opt-out rate reached 20 percent, topping 70 percent in some districts. Washington's numbers represented half the grade eleven class. In several other states, high school refusals reached 15 percent.... These numbers are a huge leap over 2014, when the Opt Out movement first began to have an impact.... Leaders predict the numbers will escalate again in the March to May 2016 testing season. Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website

Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Agriculture, Soil, Plant Science · Demography · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Educational Assessment and Improvement · History · Mathematics

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