Presenters

PRESENTERS:

Schedule

The following sessions will take place at The Interverse.

Sunday—September 24

8:00 pm EDT — Conference Kickoff

(informal, everyone invited)

Monday—September 25

3:30 pm EDT — Eric Crump

Resistance Rhetoric: Putting a Positive Spin on an Anti(testing, standards) Campaign

9:00 pm EDT — Mickey VanDerwerker

Are Virginia's High Stakes Tests Good Enough?

Tuesday—September 26

3:30 pm EDT — George and Sharon Schmidt

Organizing resistance in a totalitarian city — Chicago in the Age of the Testocracy

8:00 pm EDT — Susan Ohanian

Silence Ain't Golden: Spread the Word

Wednesday—September 27

11:00 am EDT — Ted Nellen

Assessment Should Inform Not Drive Instruction

7:15 pm EDT — Steve Orel

Live from the World of Opportunity in Birmingham, Alabama: The school the standardized test machine could not close down

9:00 pm EDT — Annelise Schantz

Why are grades becoming more important than true learning?

Thursday—September 28

9:00 pm EDT — Kathy McKittrick

"If We Don’t, Who Will?": Fighting the Rising Tide of Education "Reform"

Friday—September 29

3:00 pm EDT — Gloria Pipkin

A Techno-weenie Learns to Use E-Tools for Organizing

8:00 pm EDT — General Conference Wrap-Up