Labor Beat: Jesse Hagopian – Standardization, Black Education
Jesse Hagopian — educator, activist, and editor of “More Than A Score” — spoke on the topic of: Standardization, Black Education, and Criminalization of Black Teachers and Youth. It was at a meeting sponsored by Chicago Teachers Union and Haymarket Books, held on April 24, 2015. We present this video as the opt-out movement continues to grow in Illinois. The Opt Out bill (HB 306) has now passed the Illinois House.
“We were inspired by your struggle,” Seattle-based educator Hagopian told the audience made up mostly of CTU members. “We took that step, and then Sarah Chambers here and the teachers at Saucedo Elementary also refused to give the ISAT and inspired a whole new wave of resistance across the country.
“There was the largest walkout in U.S. history in Colorado when thousands of students refused to take end-of-course exams…We are currently in the midst of the largest uprising in U.S. history against high-stakes testing.”
Hagopian focused on the racist aspects of such high-stakes testing. “Many families of color are joining this movement because of what educators have known for a long time that there’s a school-to-prison pipeline.”
In developing this theme, Hagopian traces this phenomenon back to its historic roots: “This use of high-stakes tests to dehumanize Black people has a long history that we need to uncover and understand.” High-stakes testing “entered the public schools in the early 1900s as part of the eugenics movement, an openly white supremacist ideology. Not just white supremacist, but it was designed to prove that men were superior to women, that native born were superior to immigrants. This ideology even espoused that the northern, fairer-skinned Europeans were superior to the swarthy Mediterranean Europeans.”
It gets worse. “One of the champions of this eugenics movement was Carl Brigham, a professor at Princeton University”. During WWI he brought “IQ tests into the military. He wanted to rank and sort the troops to who was going to be the grunt soldiers who were going to go die in the trenches, and who were going to be the officers to oversee the slaughter.”
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