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The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.
Spotlight
As an Atlanta grand jury considers indictments against former top school officials in a test cheating scandal and the annual wave of high-stakes standardized exams begins across the nation, a new survey reports confirmed cases of test score manipulation in at least 37 states and Washington, D.C. in the past four academic years. The analysis by the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) documents more than 50 ways schools improperly inflated their scores during that period.
New FairTest fact sheet explains that the looming multi-state standardized tests are "vaporware"--still more hype than substance--and are unlikely to be much of an improvement over current tests. Many school infrastructures will not be able to handle the computer load, and the high stakes will continue to damage children, teachers and schools.
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The Resolution is a vehicle for everyone who cares about public education to speak out against the harmful consequences of high-stakes testing.
FairTest finds that nearly 850 four-year colleges do not use the SAT I or ACT to admit substantial numbers of bachelor degree applicants.