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The Real Facts About Waiting for Superman, prepared by Mass. Citizens for Public
Schools and FairTest - available as a flyer in pdf and in text below so you can adapt
it for your own use.

The Real Facts About Waiting for Superman

Waiting for Superman may be good melodrama, but the movie fails the test of accuracy, and its purported solutions will not improve education.

Click below for the PDF

Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations

Summary

Definition. Multiple measures: the use of multiple indicators and sources of evidence of student learning, of varying kinds, gathered at multiple points in time, within and across subject areas.

A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools

By Monty Neill

Published in Education Week Online: June 18, 2010

Documents from a February 2009 conference on standardized testing in the
Americas, with representatives from 13 countries and 31 organizations, including
FairTest, sponsored by the Research Network
of the Initiative for Democratic Education in the Americas
(IDEA). A pdf of all the reports in
English and additional materials

June 17, 2010

"Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations."

Includes a 2-page summary, 10 pp of text, and 2 appendices.

FairTest and Advancement Project co-sponsored a webinar on testing, discipline
and the school-to-prison pipeline.

Check out the powerpoint presentation from the webinar here.

Watch a film of the Webinar here.

FEA's revised 2011 two-page summary of its
recommendations on the reauthorization of ESEA is here.