Standardized Testing Opponents Stage "National Opt Out Day."

The Huffington Post (1/9, Resmovits) reports on the "small but vocal group of teachers and parents who want to end high-stakes testing" who are staging "National Opt Out Day, an event marked by teach-ins across the country. 'We want to kick off a conversation about opting out,' said Shaun Johnson, an assistant elementary education professor at Towson University who helps facilitate United Opt Out National, the group behind Opt Out Day. Johnson and Slekar hope that Opt Out Day leads parents across the country to deny the standardized testing of their children this spring. The movement will culminate with an 'Occupy the DOE' (Department of Education) protest in Washington, D.C. this March." The piece notes that the group is taking the action on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of NCLB.