Author: FairTest

Stop testing madness, create culture to truly prepare students Posted: Thursday, May. 17, 2012 – Charlotte Observer op ed From Pamela Grundy and Carol Sawyer, co-chairs of Mecklenburg Area Coming Together for Schools: It’s test week, and every public school teacher and parent in North Carolina knows what that means. Students taking End of Grade […]

Here are sample letters for you to use in encouraging friends, local school boards, allied organizations, and state and national legislators to endorse the Resolution. There are also sample letters to the editor and op-eds. We encourage you to submit these to your local paper or blogs. Sample letters to friends and others: Letter to […]

School’s out for summer, to the relief of millions of test-weary students, teachers and parents. Our children are spending less time learning, more time prepping for, taking and worrying about standardized tests. Are you are concerned about the increasing influence of standardized testing on your children? Do feel your child is getting test prep while […]

Dear (Legislator/Congressperson), Standardized testing is out of control in our public schools. Parents and educators are fed up with the stress, the time wasted in endless test prep and the costly fallout that includes narrowing curricula and closing schools. The National Research Council has concluded that the huge expansion in high-stakes exams has not improved […]

Dear Members/Board Members of the [name] PTA/PTO, I’m writing to ask you to help curb the pervasive high-stakes testing that is damaging our children’s education. Please join me in endorsing the National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. I attach a copy. The National Resolution sends a strong message from parents, teachers and communities: We have too […]

Dear [School board member/organization leader], High-stakes school testing is out of control in the United States. Parents and educators are fed up with the stress, the endless test prep and the costly fallout that includes narrowing curricula and closing schools. According to the National Research Council, this huge expansion of testing has failed to improve […]

Dear [your friend/colleague], I’m writing to ask you to help curb the pervasive high-stakes testing that is damaging our children’s education. Please join me in endorsing the National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing. (I attach a copy of it.) The National Resolution sends a message from parents, teachers and communities. High-stakes standardized testing has narrowed curriculum, […]

The 2011-2012 public school year has now wrapped up everywhere in the country, but journalists continue to crank out important stories about testing problems and alternatives. Still considerable action in Texas, Florida, and DC — three places where high-stakes testing is most out of control. Incomplete Report on DC Cheating Ignores Testing Scandals Under Michele […]

for further information:Dr. Monty Neill (617) 477-9792Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773 for immediate release, Tuesday, June 26, 2012 HIGH-STAKES TESTING RESISTANCE SPREADS ACROSS NATION;RESOLUTIONS, BOYCOTTS, OPT-OUTS SHOW INCREASED PUBLIC OPPOSITIONTO FAILED “TEST-AND-PUNISH” SCHOOL POLICIES A rising tide of protest is sweeping the U.S. as growing numbers of parents, teachers, and administrators take action against high-stakes testing, […]

Even as the academic year winds down, the pace of stories about high-stakes testing flaws and support for assessment alternatives has not slowed one bit Video — Growing National Movement Against High-Stakes Public School Testing https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=gbdTheK9uqY NY Cracking Down on Pearson After Spate of Errors (but the company keeps the state’s lucrative testing contract) http://gothamschools.org/2012/06/15/state-cracking-down-on-testmaker-pearson-after-spate-of-issues/ […]