More Than a Score (51 page)

Jeanette Deutermann
is a parent advocate, education activist, and mother of two boys, ages seven and ten. She is the cofounder of New York State Allies for Public Education (www.nysape.org) and the founder and administrator of the Facebook group “Long Island Opt Out Info,” which currently has more than fourteen thousand members. 

 

 

Rosie Frascella
is an activist with the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE) and the New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE). She teaches English at the International High School at Prospect Heights.

 

 

Alexia Garcia
graduated from Lincoln High School in Portland, Oregon, in 2013 and matriculated at Vassar College in fall 2014. Alexia served as the 2012–2013 student representative on the Portland Public School's Board of Education. Throughout high school Alexia organized with the Portland Public Schools Student Union and the Portland Student Union. Alexia currently interns with the Portland Association of Teachers.

 

 

Emily Giles
has been a teacher and union activist since 2002. Since moving to New York City in 2006, she has been active in the education justice movement. She currently teaches at a public high school in Brooklyn, New York. As a founding member of MORE (Movement of Rank and File Educators), she fights for the rights of teachers and students and for a different vision of rank-and-file unionism in the UFT.

 

 

Nikhil Goyal
is an activist and author of a forthcoming book on learning. He lives in New York. He has appeared as a commentator on MSNBC and FOX and has written for the
New York Times
, MSNBC, NPR, and
Forbes
. An international speaker, Goyal has spoken at Google, The Atlantic, Fast Company, NBC, MIT, Stanford University, Barnard College, SXSW, and others.

 

 

Helen Gym
is a community and education leader whose work supports the right to a quality public education for all children. She is a cofounder of Parents United for Public Education, a citywide parent group focused on equitable school budgets. Helen also leads the board of Asian Americans United, focused on youth leadership, community development, and advocacy for Philadelphia's Asian American and immigrant communities.

 

 

Photo credit: Truman Buffett

Jesse Hagopian
teaches history and is the co-adviser of the Black Student Union at Garfield High School, the site of the historic boycott of the MAP test in 2013. He is an associate editor of
Rethinking Schools
, a founding member of Social Equality Educators, and winner of the national 2013 “Secondary School Teacher of Year” award from the Academy of Education Arts and Sciences. He is a contributing author to
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation
and
101 Changemakers: Rebels and Radicals Who Changed US History
, and writes regularly for
Truthout
,
Common Dreams
,
Socialist Worker
,
Black Agenda Report
, and the
Seattle Times
op-ed page.

 

 

Brian Jones
taught elementary grades in New York City's public schools for nine years and is currently pursuing a doctorate in urban education at the CUNY Graduate Center. He contributed to the book
Education and Capitalism: Struggles for Learning and Liberation
and co-narrated the film
The Inconvenient Truth Behind “Waiting for Superman
.” He is also a member of the Movement of Rank and File Educators (MORE), the social justice caucus of the United Federation of Teachers. In 2014, he ran for lieutenant governor of New York with the Green Party.

 

 

Alfie Kohn
writes and speaks widely on human behavior, education, and parenting. His thirteenth book is 
The Myth of the Spoiled Child: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom about Children and Parenting
(2014). Kohn has been described in 
TIME 
magazine as “perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.” The father of two children, he lives (actually) in the Boston area and (virtually) at www.alfiekohn.org.

 

 

Amber Kudla
is currently a student at the Rochester Institute of Technology, where she majors in chemistry.