'These Tests Will Go:' Tracking the Opt-Out Movement in Urban Philadelphia

Jennifer Berkshire
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Have You Heard
February 01, 2016Education

The movement to "opt out" of standardized tests has often been characterized as a white, suburban cause. But when Jennifer Berkshire and Aaron French, creators of the new podcast series "Have You Heard," took their microphones to Philadelphia to talk to African American parents, they heard a very different story.

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