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Websites for NY Performance Standards Consortium: http://www.performanceassessment.org/
and Time Out From Testing http://www.timeoutfromtesting.org/

Website: http://www.borg.com/~rparkany/ Standards/HOPE/LinksResources.htm
web site for Coalition for Common Sense in Education: http://www.freespeech.org/ccse ; Listserve: listserv@netpals.lsoft.com to subscribe send mail to stopnys-subscribe-request@lsoft.com
Brooklyn parent Jeanne Heifetz's research into the Regents English exams uncovers significant alterations of literary excerpts taken from the work of major authors that remove "virtually any reference to race, religion, ethnicity, sex, nudity, alcohol, even the mildest profanity and just about anything that might offend someone for some reason." See New York Times story. Contact Jeannebis@aol.com for more info.
NYCoRE's Position Statement Against High Stakes Testing

*Document on Myths about the Regents Exam

* Statement on Testing and Assessment adopted by the Scarsdale Board of Education.

*Students Against Testing: http://www.nomoretests.com

* The New York legislative education committees are holding hearings on the state's Regent's exams in October of 2003. The Senate held one last week in New York City. The Time Out From Testing website has posted 9 of the testimonies thus far, along with articles, press releases, etc. Of particular interest is Walt Haney's testimony in which he examines droput data in NY. It includes national dropout data in a useful table.

* Invited testimony by FairTest's Monty Neill at the Regents Hearing Standards and High School Graduation Requirements before the New York State Assembly Committee on Education

* The NY Performance Standards Consortium has won victories against the state's H.S. Regents exams. Read in the FairTest Examiner and in Horace http://www.essentialschools.org/cs/resources/view/ces_res/380