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Wang, Yinying – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2017
Opting out of state standardized tests has recently become a movement--a series of grassroots, organized efforts to refuse to take high-stakes state standardized tests. In particular, the opt-out rates in the state of New York reached 20% in 2015 and 21% in 2016. This study aims to illustrate the social networks and examine the paradoxes that have…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Network Analysis, Common Core State Standards, Program Implementation
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Szolowicz, Michael – Education Policy Analysis Archives, 2016
In the fall of 2013, a parents' group formed to protest the new Common Core based mathematics textbook recently adopted by their school district. Quickly allying with teachers, the new coalition began to, "hammer," the district to drop the Common Core and return to more traditional texts and pedagogies. They did so by speaking at…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Resistance to Change, Politics of Education, Local Issues