Opting Out: The Story of the Parents' Grassroots Movement to Achieve Whole-Child Public Schools

by David Hursh, Jeanette Deutermann, Lisa Rudley, et al.

Book Overview

A 2020 AESA Critics' Choice Book Award winner

The rise of high-stakes testing in New York and across the nation has narrowed and simplified what is taught, while becoming central to the effort to privatize public schools. However, it and similar reform efforts have met resistance, with New York as the exemplar for how to repel standardized testing and invasive data collection, such as inBloom. In New York, the two parent/teacher organizations...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1975501497
• ISBN13: 9781975501495
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Myers Education Press
• Length: 125 Pages