Home
Sign Up E-Newsletter | About FairTest | Contact Us

Primary links

  • Home
  • K-12 Testing
    • News
    • High stakes testing
    • Authentic Assessment
    • Accountability
    • NCLB
      • Fair Test on NCLB/ESEA
      • NCLB Legislation and Litigation
      • NCLB News
      • NCLB Reports
      • Alternatives
      • Get Involved
    • Fact Sheets
    • Get Involved
  • University Testing
    • Optional List
    • ACT/SAT
    • Grad School
    • News
    • Fact Sheets
  • Newsletter
    • Current Issue
    • Archives
  • Fact Sheets
    • K-12/NCLB
    • University
    • Employment
  • Get Involved
    • Donate
    • Sign Up
    • K-12/ARN
    • State Resources
    • NCLB Overhaul
    • University
    • Organizing Tools
    • Media Kit
  • News
    • What's New
    • K-12 News
    • University News
    • Other News
    • FairTest in the News
  • Other Resources
    • Teacher
    • Employment
    • Publications
    • Videos
    • Links
Home :: National

Get involved: Taking on the NCLB

  • New! July 31, 2007 Action Alert: Keep up the Pressure for Real NCLB Reform!
  • April 2007 Action Alert! - Call congresspeople about NCLB now!
  • Another (Easy) Way to Act for NCLB Change
  • See FairTest's Seven Ways to Work for the Overhaul of the Federal Education Law (NCLB)
  • The Educator Roundtable Petititon To Overhaul NCLB
  • Other efforts to overhaul or overthrow NCLB - from the FairTest Examiner, January 2007
  • See the listing of the Members of the Senate Committee on Education
  • See the Listing of the Members of the House Committee on Education
  • Check out these resources for contacting your legislator.
  • Piece from the Winter 01-02 FairTest Examiner on steps testing reform activists can take in response to the new Federally Mandated Testing Plan.
  • What the Presidential Candidates are saying about NCLB
  • FairTest Article on NCLB in AFSC journal Peacework
  • Video: "FairTest: You Can't Judge Learning with a Standardized Test"
  • High Stakes Tests Do Not Improve Student Learning
  • Summary of Proposed Legislative Changes to ESEA/NCLB Press Release
  • EDUCATION, CIVIL RIGHTS, DISABILITY, RELIGIOUS GROUPS PROMOTE "REDEFINING ACCOUNTABILITY" TO REPLACE "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND" FOCU
  • Summary of Proposed Legislative Changes to ESEA/NCLB
  • Seven Ways to Work for NCLB Reform
  • “No Child Left Behind” After Six Years: An Escalating Track Record of Failure
  • Refocusing Accountability
  • What is the "No Child Left Behind" Law?
  • A FairTest Position Statement on NCLB
  • Head Start Letter
  • Failing Our Children: Executive Summary
  • Letter from FairTest to all Presidential Candidates. October 2007
  • Summary of Proposed Legislative Changes to ESEA/NCLB
  • Aspen Commission Proposals are "NCLB on Steroids;" Side-Effect Will Be More "Teaching to the Tests" (PDF)
  • Reality-Testing NCLB (PDF)
  • Letter in Opposition to Testing Head Start Children
  • National Assessment of Educational Progress and National Assessment Governing Board
  • PURE testimony to the Senate Education Committee Subcommittee on NCLB
  • High School Testing: Letter to Congress
  • Classroom Caste System
  • Letter to the Nation
  • Forum on Educational Accountability Proposed ESEA/NCLB Amendments
  • Seven Ways to Work to Overhaul the Federal Education Law (ESEA/NCLB)
  • Another (Easy) Way to Act for NCLB Change
  • Act TODAY for NCLB Overhaul
  • Ensure U.S. House Really Overhauls NCLB
  • Keep up the Pressure for Real NCLB Reform!
  • A Draft Alternative Approach to Accountability
  • Performance Assessment Language for ESEA
  • Ed. Reform, Civil Rights, Child Advocacy Groups Tell Congress: Block Bush Plan to Force States to Expend Student Testing
  • Senate-House Conferees Urged to "Address Fundamental Problems" In Elementary and Secondary Education Act Legislation
  • Movement to Overhaul NCLB Accelerates
  • Expert Panel on Assessment Offers Principles, Recommendations for Lawmakers Rewriting "No Child Left Behind"
  • New Poll Shows Americans Support Comprehensive NCLB Overhaul: Reaction of FairTest to ETS Survey
  • Forum on Educational Accountability
  • Education bill falls short
  • New York Times: Back to School
  • Vermont Governor Opposed to Education Plan
  • Wisconsin calls not to expand testing for ESEA
  • Time Magazine: Getting Testy over Tests
  • Editorial: Don't teach to the test
  • No Teacher Will Be Left Standing
  • Bush Test Expansion Scheme Will Leave More Children Behind, Dumb Down Educational Quality
  • Education Week: At 4, NCLB Gets Praise and Fresh Call to Amend It
  • Statement of FairTest in Reaction to Pres. Bush Signing "Leave No Child Behind Act"
  • Minimum Revisions Needed to Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Testing and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Provisions
  • Issues and Arguments on Bush Testing Plan
  • Impact of ESEA on Massachusetts
  • Summary of the New Elementary and Secondary Education Act
  • ESEA Draft Rules
  • MCAS Gains are Unreliable Basis for "High Performing" School Awards; Annual Score Increases Often are Not Sustained
  • Testing Industry Not Competent to Handle Bush Exam Expansion Plan
  • How "Improvement" Works in ESEA
  • Reality-Testing NCLB
  • What is NCLB?
  • Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for "Multiple Measures" in "No Child" Overhaul Legislation
  • Test Reformers React to New National Poll on "No Child Left Behind" (PDF)
  • Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for "Multiple Measures" in "No Child" Overhaul Legislation (PDF)
  • Efforts to Overhaul NCLB
  • NEW REPORT CHALLENGES STRATEGIES PROMOTED BY CHICAGO SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND"
  • No Child Left Behind Flunks on 3rd Anniversary Report Card; Law Needs Complete Overhaul to Promote School Reform
  • Joint Organizational Statement on No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act

  • - FairTest finds that over 775 four-year colleges do not use the SAT I or ACT to admit substantial numbers of bachelor degree applicants: See the searchable listing of schools.
  • - Find Out How and Why Colleges Go Test Optional

What's New at FairTest

  • FairTest is MOVING!
  • TEST-OPTIONAL COLLEGES LIST SOARS PAST 775
  • What the Presidential Candidates are saying about NCLB

Read more

Members of the Media:

Contact Robert Schaeffer at (239) 395-6773 or FairTest at (857) 350-8207