Testing, COVID-19, and the College Board w/Nate Bowling

I’m not anti-testing per se, I’m anti-testing that does not have meaning, and I’m also anti-consequences for testing where the person being tested…doesn’t have agency over the results.

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Topics include:

• What prompted Nate to leave Tacoma and take up teaching in the UAE

• Why the job of teaching and learning in a low-income schools in the United States as currently constructed is unsustainable

• Why the College Board’s plan to test during the COVID-19 crisis is inequitable and flawed

• Whether the College Board’s reductive focus effectively prevents teachers from being responsive in the way this political moment demands

• Why Nate is not entirely opposed to standardization and testing

• How Nate really feels about the Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies

Resources:

• natebowling.com

• Teachers United

• Nate’s Twitter thread on 2016 Teachers of the Year Finalists

• Nate’s testimony to the Washington State Board of Education

• Nerd Farmer Podcast

• Open Letter to the College Board about Testing During COVID-19