Archive for Sophia Hanson

Article about protesting standardized tests

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/education/dear-teacher-johnny-isnt-sick-hes-just-boycotting-the-test.html?ref=education&_r=0 This is the link to an article that appeared in the New York Times on October 12, 2012. High stakes testing weighs heavily on everyone’s minds in the education field. Parents in this article are having their children sit out on “field testing” and actual standardized tests in protest. This is a very interesting […]

Some “just for fun” reading..

Hello all! I recently just started a book called “I Swear” by Lane Davis. It’s a fictional young adult book that follows the lives of several teenagers that were involved in bullying another girl, which lead to her suicide. It takes several different views from the point of the bully, denial, grief, guilt, etc. So […]