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On January 28, 2013, Ben Wolfgang reported in The Washington Times that teachers in Seattle refused to administer standardized tests to their students. This boycott occurred at a divisive time in the educational environment of the United States. On one hand, federal and state governments as well as educational agencies and associations were endorsing the latest version of standardized curriculum in the Common Core State Standards.
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Loveless, D.J., Griffith, B. (2014). Teaching and Learning in Complex Times. In: Critical Pedagogy for a Polymodal World. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-827-5_1
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