{"id":58,"date":"2018-04-10T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T13:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-spring-2017-obean\/?page_id=58"},"modified":"2020-12-20T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2020-12-20T21:42:54","slug":"teachers-of-color-as-activists-and-organizers","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/","title":{"rendered":"S Y N O P S I S"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Welcome, welcome!<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">My case study covers the recent organizing and resistance against the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) in Trinidad. While Barbados became the first Caribbean country to abolish the exam in 2019, Trinidad has refused its abolition. Before both decisions, the SEA has undergone criticism from Trinidadians, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, parents, several politicians, and community members have vocalized abolition of the SEA. However, Trinidad\u2019s Ministry of Education and the Trinidad and Tobago Unified Teachers Association (TTUTA) have called for the exam\u2019s reform rather than its abolition. While reflecting on Seattle\u2019s 2015 boycott on the Measure of Academic Progress (MAP) test and the principles of social justice unionism, I offer potential suggestions for the future of organizing towards the SEA\u2019s ultimate abolition. Click on the video below to learn about the exam historically and presently!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The SEA Exam: pass or fail\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OppIIlH7phs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome, welcome! My case study covers the recent organizing and resistance against the Secondary Entrance Assessment (SEA) in Trinidad. While Barbados became the first Caribbean country to abolish the exam in 2019, Trinidad has refused its abolition. Before both decisions, the SEA has undergone criticism from Trinidadians, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Students, parents, several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-58","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/58\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/education-2272-fall-2020-ewerah\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}