Intercambio No.1

CAMPAIGN FOR A DEMOCRATIC, FORMATIVE AND PARTICIPATORY EVALUATION

INTRODUCTION

This edition of “INTERCAMBIO” is inscribed within the IDEA Network campaign against standardized testing as a form of exclusion and control of students and professors. The campaign also has the parallel objective to construct evaluation alternatives that foster an integral, humanistic, and democratic education.
This issue also aims to continue follow-up to the work of the International Seminar on standardized evaluation and teacher performance organized by the IDEA Network in February 2009 in Mexico City. The central focus is on the struggles against standardized and teacher-performance evaluation and the promotion and articulation of ongoing processes to construct alternatives, developed through the education workers and their unions, and the social organizations of parents and students who defend public education as social right.

Year 3, No. 1, May 2010