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Building on recent successes (no K-12 standardized exams this past spring and 1,250 colleges now ACT/SAT-optional), activists — often with FairTest assistance and materials — are turning their attention to extending testing suspensions for at least another year. To help win more victories, please support FairTest’s assessment reform leadership — including these weekly updates — […]

This week’s top story describes in rich detail the current opportunity for assessment reformers to transform educational testing across the U.S. Be sure to read the piece to the end to see FairTest’s agenda for K-12 testing reform. Now is the time to connect with like-minded individuals in your state and community. Feel free to […]

Talk about a “sea change”in assessment policy– No statewide K-12 school testing took place this spring, and more than half of all U.S. 4-year colleges and universities will be ACT/SAT-optional for fall 2021 applicants https://www.fairtest.org/more-half-all-us-fouryears-colleges-and-universiti California State Considers Better Ways to Measure Student Academic Growth https://www.educationdive.com/news/california-finally-considers-a-way-to-measure-student-growth/579327/ Colorado Denver Postpones Vote on Overhauling Controversial School Rating […]

More tests are being suspended, and there’s growing pressure to extend the policies into the 2021-2022 school year. It’s time to start pressuring your local and state officials to make sure standardized exams are not added to the burdens students, teachers and educational administrators must face if and when classrooms reopen. Multiple StatesReading Test Promotion […]

As policy-makers debate re-opening classrooms later this year, momentum is growing to continue the suspension of K-12 testing mandates at least into the next academic year. Already at the undergraduate admissions level, about half of all bachelor-degree granting institutions have announced ACT/SAT-optional for Fall 2021 admissions and, in many case, future years. Parents, educators and […]

What a week! The University of California Regents voted unanimously to phase out ACT/SAT admissions test requirements. High school students and their allies sued the College Board for administering defective, on-line Advanced Placement Exams. And, many states began considering proposals to extend their suspensions of high-stakes K-12 tests into the next school year. As news […]

FairTest The National Center for Fair & Open Testing MILLER ADVOCACY GROUP BAKER, KEENER & NAHRA, LLP, Trial Attorneys for further information, contact: Bob Schaeffer FairTest (239) 395-6773 Sanan Barbar BKN Lawyers (213) 241-0900 for immediate release, Wednesday, May 20, 2020 COLLEGE BOARD SUED BY STUDENTS, FAIR-TESTING ADVOCATES FOR ACCESS AND TECHNOLOGY FAILURES ON COMPUTERIZED […]

While nearly all this spring’s K-12 exams were cancelled by coronavirus-driven school closures, there’s still lots of action in the university admissions assessment reform arena. In particularly, the University of California Regents are about to vote on a proposal to phase out use of the ACT and SAT at that system’s nine undergraduate campuses, and […]

With the peak of the current coronavirus pandemic arguably behind us in much of the U.S., policymakers are beginning to discuss what should happen when the nation’s-public schools and colleges are allowed to re-open. Not surprisingly, the role of standardized exam scores in post-COVID-19 education is a key question. Parents, teachers and reform advocates should […]

May 5, 2020, is Giving TuesdayNow, a day specially designated for supporting non-profit organizations in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. FairTest has responded to these unprecedented challenges by providing resources to grassroots activists who successfully campaigned to eliminate this spring’s federal and state public school testing mandates and spearheading the test-optional admissions movement, which […]