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Submitted by amanire on May 12, 2007 – 12:26pm resources teacher
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Two More Colleges Drop ACT/SAT Requirements
It’s a list that just keeps growing. Lake Forest College in Illinois and Salisbury University in Maryland have joined the ranks of undergraduate programs which do not require substantial numbers of applicants to submit ACT or SAT scores before admissions decisions are made. Their new policies bring the total of test-optional schools to 734, more […]
Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for "Multiple Measures" in "No Child" Overhaul Legislation (PDF)
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University Testing: Problems
Standardized tests such as the SAT, ACT, LSAT, MCAT, GMAT, and GRE are promoted by their developers as important tools for admissions offices to use in distinguishing between students from vastly different backgrounds. What the tests’ developers fail to say is how poorly the exams predict students’ future performance at the undergraduate and graduate level. […]
A Learner-Centered School Accountability Model: An Alternative to High Stakes Testing
Ken Jones For some time now, it has been apparent to many in the educational community that state and federal policies intended to develop greater school accountability for the learning of all students have been terribly counter-productive. The use of high-stakes testing of students has been fraught with flawed assumptions, oversimplified understandings of school realities, […]
Efforts to Overhaul NCLB
Other efforts to overhaul or overthrow NCLB include a grassroots petition from a group called the Educator Roundtable; efforts by Wyoming educators; a renewed legal effort by the National Education Association; and a compilation of teachers’ views on NCLB, also from the NEA. — further information