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Rich Gibson

State: 
CA
Phone: 
1 619-287-2322
Email: 
rgibson@pipeline.com
Notes: 

State Coordinators
Northern California: Susan Harman, 510-482-2856;
Central California: Rog ( Horace ) Lucido, 559-277-1312
Southern California: Rich Gibson, 619 287 2322.

  • Website
    www.calcare.org
    or
    www.schoolvoices.org

     

  • The State of Teacher Education in California
  • Injunction against California Exit Exam
  • LA Board passes resolution opposing high-stakes and for alternative assessments. See LA Times story on the resolutions. Read SF Resolution
    For info on LA organizing - contact CEJ at Caputoprl@aol.com.
    For info on SF organizing - contact T4SJ at pilgrim@muse.sfusd.edu or
    ksuda5@yahoo.com.
    * Petition for parents.
    * Flyer-High-Stakes Testing and Retention are Class-Biased and Racist
    * See this article on the growing backlash against high stakes testing.
    * See this article on protests against Stanford 9 testing gaining support among parents.
    * EdSource, an independent, impartial nonprofit organization in California established to "clarify complex K-12 education issues."
    * See this CalCARE flyer in Spanish.
    * Letters to the Sacramento Bee Published on 8/20/01 opposing high stakes testing
    * PDF files of two flyers on testing in California. What's Wrong With California's Tests and What We Can Do About California's High Stakes Tests
    * Flyer by the Coalition for Fair and Authentic Assessment: What You Need to Know About California's High Stakes Tests
    * News story on harmful consequences of California testing program with important implications for new federal testing requirements. Currently on this site, look to upper right of home page for box to click on. http://www.ocregister.com/
    * Challenging High-Stakes Standardized Testing: Working to Build an Anti-racist, Progressive Social Movement in Public Education, By Alex Caputo-Pearl http://www.calcare.org/reading/index.html
    * The old-school belief in racial equality through public education gets new blood
    * News Story: Panel urges suspension of exit exam
    * Report from meeting of the California Alternate Assessment task force
    * Social Justice and Assessment NOTES Newsletter (PDF)
    * Californians for Justice Report on high school exit exam. First Things First: Why we must stop punishing students and fix California's schools.(PDF)
    *Social Justice and Assessment, a bi-monthly electronic newsletter; to subscribe, contact Kathy Emery at mke4think@hotmail.com
    * The Search for the Truth - High Stakes Testing is Ruining Your Child's Education. (Power Point Presentation) Powerpoint Viewer, a free tool that allows
    people without the full program to read MSPowerpoint files, is available
    on-line at: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx