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4/9/10: FairTest had a featured contribution in the popular Washington Post blog '"The Answer Sheet"  --

      http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/obama-ed-bl...

Friday, 4/2/10, FairTest had a long letter-to-the-editor that ran across the top of the USA Today editorial page --

      http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/04/letters-testandpunish-system-is-i...

By Monty Neill, Interim Executive Director

This was posted on the National Journal blog at
http://education.nationaljournal.com/2010/03/sizing-up-the-new-blueprint...

The Obama Administration's "Blueprint for Reform" continues to rely far too heavily on standardized tests to control schools and define learning. As a result, it provides far too little reform of the discredited No Child Left Behind law (NCLB). Too much of this plan merely rearranges the deck chairs on the Titanic.

On February 17, the Washington Post "The Answer Sheet" blog featured a contribution by FairTest's Lisa Guisbond on linking teachers' pay to their students' test scores, which attracted more reader comments than any other posting to the site in the past several months:

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: http://blogs.ajc.com/get-schooled-blog/2010/02/08/fairtest-national-merit-criteria-need-public-airing-and-review/?cxntfid=blogs_get_schooled_blog

LETTER TO EDITOR: Test scores do not equal merit

Thursday, February 26, 2009

Columnist Ken Blackwell correctly identifies FairTest, the National Center for Fair & Open Testing,

New York Times:  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/23/education/23sat.html  -- in addition, a Times news service version of the same story quoting FairTest ran in dozens of other major newspapers around the country