Check out today's interview with CEC District 6 President Johanna Garcia on the Brian Lehrer Show. Johanna did a great job of explaining why students should opt out of these unreliable exams and the negative impact of high-stakes testing on our schools and the quality of education in a debate with Richard Buery, former Deputy Mayor under de Blasio and now chief of public affairs at KIPP charter schools. Please listen to the entire segment -- but for a quick recap, my tweets are below. Rarely do real-life parents or education advocates get on this show, let's hope that Brian will do this more often in the future.
ATT Parents: Listen in @brianlehrer show w/ @JohannaG_NYC Garcia at 10:30 AM speaking on testing & #optout. Very rare for real parent leader or edu advocate to get on his show - listen in at https://t.co/xVesrFZgok or AM 820 cc @NYCOptOut @NYSAPE— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@JohannaG_NYC sez state tests are highly flawed, schls are becoming test prep factories & undermining real learning & critical thinking, harming communities of color most of all & used to close their schools. @RichardBuery sez tests working @kipp charter. https://t.co/y3ahlKmG90— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
Interesting only defender state exams on @brianlehrer show comes fr/ charter school sector; @JohannaG_NYC defends standardized testing via NAEPs but state exams aren't useful & aren't diagnostic. When curriculum teaches to test results lose significant - ie #campbellslaw https://t.co/dvMJ1vYWTH— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@JohannaG_NYC unsurprised charter schools like testing as their high scores are gateway to privatization - @brianlehrer asks @richardbuery whether isn't it true that charters' corporate/business model is based on high scores. Buery doesn't really answer. https://t.co/BSvsDBf8jQ— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
After repeated questions @richardbuery rejects premise that high scores are key to marketing effort of charter schools including @kipp network & others. Repeats false claim that "charter schools are public schools" simply allows entrepreneurs to "experiment" to improve education https://t.co/lW9USrtbPW— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
Parent caller: Schools are still described by their test scores & parents try to keep their kids out of schools w/low scores that are correlated w/students of color; which contributes to segregation. What else to look at for school quality? asks @BrianLehrer (I wd say class size) https://t.co/SAIChljoyi— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@brianlehrer isn't #optout movement mostly affluent parents - higher rates in suburbs? Actually that claim is disputed here: https://t.co/OuhxGbPkXP +there's less access to information in communities of color & more intimidation of parents in @nycschools https://t.co/XaKhF3CqZL— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
Wish also @brianlehrer wd address unreliability of state exams - results completely invalid as shown by NAEPs, not grade appropriate, & politically manipulated to see improvement where there's none https://t.co/hpsMPV5kSf— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@JohannaG_NYC sez there's a big language barrier & culturally, hard to challenge authority ; we tripled the # in last two yrs of #optouts in D6. (Also @NYSEDNews Dept. Chancellor admitted state exams useless for most ELLs - only tiny no. test proficient) https://t.co/QUTELsiwLP— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@johannaG_NYC Our public school students are competing vs charter students who have advantages - (w/far fewer ELLS and with special needs) https://t.co/3cCMLfClUy— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
In response to caller, @johannaG_NYC says This is not about participating for parents - #optout parents are among the most active at the school level; its about focusing on civics education, critical thinking https://t.co/h326jQfxh5— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
.@richardbuery says we need data for how well schools are doing & for equity - yet really, we've know about achievement gap for >30 years & yet gap has increased NOT decreased in @nycschools & elsewhere b/c high-stakes testing makes it worse not better. https://t.co/fVKF8fdD1X— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
Fallacy to claim we don't want objective info - these tests are completely flawed, they compressed 3 days into 2 days w/kids tested for 5 hrs; toxic tests, marginalize communities of color; don't provide equity -sez @JohannaG_NYC . https://t.co/IVwP6SaNYq— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
Bravo! @johannaG_NYC pts out state tests create zero-sum game where schools are competing for seats, creating losers & winners & hurting kids. Great job - hope @BrianLehrer show will now on hear from parents/advocates in exploring critical problems @nycschools cc @nycoptout https://t.co/QwCvYni01e— leonie haimson (@leoniehaimson) April 26, 2018
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