K-12 News

Action Alert! Cancel ALL State K-12 Exams Now — Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 16-24, 2020
States Must Apply for Federal Testing Waivers; Eliminate All Other Testing Requirements
65+ Ways Schools Have Cheated on Testing: Manipulating High-Stakes Exam Scores for Political Gain
FairTest Statement on 2018 NAEP Result Release
State ESSA Plans: Uneven Progress Toward Better Assessment and Accountability
2017 National Grange High Stakes Testing Resolution
Please Join FairTest in Honoring John H. Jackson and Barbara Madeloni
Time to Learn Survey: Impact of Testing on Teaching and Learning
Standardized Testing and Young Children
Why You Can Boycott Standardized Tests Without Fear of Federal Penalties to Your School (Updated February 2018)
Graduation Test Update: States That Recently Eliminated or Scaled Back High School Exit Exams (Updated MAY 2019)
Implementing Performance Assessment: FairTest Webinar
Assessment Matters: Constructing Model State Systems to Replace Testing Overkill
Back-To-School Report Tallies 2016 Testing Reform Victories
Obama Admin. Enhanced Assessment Grants Called ?Far Too Little And Way Too Late? For Testing Reformers
Action Alert! FairTest opposes US Education Department’s harmful draft regulations on accountability
Testing Resistance & Reform News: May 25 – 31, 2016
How to Organize Testing Resistance and Reform under ESSA – PowerPoint
Computerized School Exam Problems In Two-Thirds Of States
The Testing Resistance and Reform Movement, Monthly Review
Testing Resistance & Reform News: February 10 – 16, 2016
End Florida’s Politically Manipulated School Grades
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing
More than 670,000 Refused Tests in 2015
The New Federal Education Law: A Basis for a Stronger Testing Resistance and Assessment Reform Movement
Building a Stronger, More Effective Assessment Reform Movement under ESSA
Congress to Vote on No Child Left Behind Overhaul
Testing Reform Victories 2015: Growing Grassroots Movement Rolls Back Testing Overkill
Independent Test Results Show NCLB Fails
FairTest Reaction: Latest NAEP Results Add To Evidence Of Test-And-Punish Era Failures
Reform Movement Reacts to Obama Administration Statement, School Chiefs Survey on Testing Overkill
Guide to organizing by Jeanette Deutermann
California Suspends High School Graduation Test
Computerized Testing Problems – Chronology
FairTest: Florida Should Suspend High-Stakes For Students Due To Computer Test Failures
Fairtest Reaction To 2015 Annual Gallup/Phi Delta Kappan Survey
Tell Congress: Keep Federal Accountability Mandates Out of a New Education Law
FairTest Analysis of Key Assessment and Accountability Issues Facing the ESEA Reauthorization Conference Committee
Video of Karen Lewis at FairTest event
FairTest Reacts to Ongoing Computer-Administered Testing Problems: Exams Crashed in 9 States in April
Testing Resistance & Reform News: April 15 – 17, 2015
National Day of Action April 8
Help FairTest Grow the Testing Reform Movement
Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 21 – 24, 2015
Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 18 – 20, 2015
FairTest testimony to Connecticut legislature on testing reform.
FairTest Testimony on ESEA Reauthorization to Senate HELP Committee.
FEA Recommendations for ESEA on Assessment, Accountability and School Improvement, Jan. 2015
FairTest Statement on Federal Standardized Exam Mandates
Testing Reformers React to Sec. Duncan’s Call for “No Child” Revamp
What State Legislators Can Do to Advance Assessment Reform
The Testing Resistance and Reform Movement: A FairTest Report
Time for a Real Testing Moratorium
?Atlanta is the Tip of an Iceberg? — New Count Shows Widespread Test Score Corruption in 39 States And D.C.
CONFIRMED CASES OF TEST-CHEATING (2009 – 2015)
Testing Reform Victories: The First Wave
Large Florida School District Votes to “Opt Out” of Standardized Exam Mandates.
Testing Resistance & Reform News: August 20 – 26, 2014
Fairtest?s Reaction to Proposal To Postpone Test-Based Teacher Ratings
Forum on Educational Accountability’s Recomendations for Improving Federal Assessment Law
Testing Resistance & Reform News: May 29 – June 3, 2014
Stagnant Grade 12 NAEP Results Underscore Failure of Test-Driven Public Education
Special Edition: Testing Resistance & Reform News: April 2 – 4, 2014
Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 19 – 25, 2014
Testing Resistance & Reform News: February 26 – March 4, 2014
FairTest’s Testimony to the Rhode Island Legislature on Graduation Exams
Nat’l Ed Leaders Propose Principles for Congressional Compromise on NCLB
New York Performance Standards Consortium Fact Sheet
Testing Resistance & Reform News: December 18 – 24, 2013
Testing Resistance & Reform News: November 8 – 13, 2013
Momentum Grows Against Zero Tolerance Discipline and High-Stakes Testing
Testing Resistance & Reform News: October 31 – November 7, 2013
FairTest News Release on 2013 NAEP Results, Added Evidence of NCLB Failure
Monty Neill’s oral testimony to NY Senate hearings on testing
FairTest News Release on Public Letter about Standardized Testing by 120+ Children’s Authors & Illustrators
FairTest Infographic: Common Core: More Tests, But Not Better
New Fact Sheet: Common Core Assessment Myths and Realities: Moratorium Needed From More Tests, Costs, Stress
Common Core Assessment Myths and Realities: Moratorium Needed From More Tests, Costs, Stress
Testing Resistance & Reform News: August 15 – August 21, 2013
FairTest Press Release: New Poll Shows “Americans Fed Up with School-Test Overkill”
Testing Resistance & Reform News: August 1 – August 7, 2013
Testing Resistance & Reform News: July 25 – 31, 2013
Testing Resistance & Reform News: July 18 – 24, 2013
The Spring 2013 Testing Reform Uprising.
How High-Stakes Testing Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline Infographic
FairTest Press Release: Senate Education Bill Fails To Reverse “No Child Left Behind” Damage, Ignores Constituents
Assessment that Supports Education – Short Video on Mission Hill School
Building a Successful Assessment Reform Movement
FairTest submits testimony on accountability to House Education Committee
FairTest Press Release: Standardized Exam Cheating In 37 States And D.C.; New Report Shows Widespread Test Score Corruption
FairTest to honor Jonathan Kozol with Deborah W. Meier Hero in Education Award
Massachusetts Statement against High-Stakes Standardized Testing
MA Educators Statement – Press Release Feb. 2013
8 Ways To Fight High-Stakes Testing Infographic
FairTest Statement of Support for Seattle Teachers’ Test Boycott
Seattle Teachers Boycott Tests
How You Can Work for Testing Reform
What’s Wrong with Standardized Tests Infographic
FairTest Senate testimony connects testing with school to prison pipeline.
Assessment Reform Tools: Research, Books and More, November 2012
View New Webinar on Authentic Performance Assessment.
FairTest Commentary: Chicago Strike Echos High-Stakes Testing Resistance
Resistance to High Stakes Testing Spreads
NEW SCHOOL YEAR: DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILED ED. POLICY
High-Stakes Testing Resistance Spreads Across Nation
Testing Reform in the News — June 13 – 15, 2012
Pop Quiz on Testing
Testing Reform in the News — June 8 – 12, 2012
Video: FairTest Honors Diane Ravitch with the Deborah W. Meier Hero in Education Award, June 5, 2012.
FairTest’s comment on the U.S. Education Department’s Proposed Priorities for the Teacher Incentive Fund.
FairTest’s Letter on High Stakes Testing to the Equity Commission
FairTest to Honor Diane Ravitch with the Deborah W. Meier Hero in Education Award
A slide show of basic facts about Duncan’s AYP waiver plan and the Senate HELP bill reauthorizing ESEA
Summary and Critique of Key Provisions in Harkin-Enzi ESEA/NCLB Reauthorization Bill of October 2011
What to say when you call your senator about NCLB
FairTest Key Recommendations to the Senate, October 16, 2011
FairTest responds to the Administration’s dangerous “flexibility” proposals to change NCLB.
What Should Congress Do About Teacher Evaluation?
FairTest Critiques Sen. Alexander’s ESEA-NCLB proposals: The few benefits don’t outweigh the problems.
Fact Sheet: “Tests, Cheating and Educational Corruption”
FairTest on the Atlanta Cheating Scandal
ESEA Reauthorization and Ending the “School-to-Prison” Pipeline: A Congressional Briefing
Flawed Massachusetts Teacher Evaluation Proposal Risks Further Damage to Teaching and Learning
Detailed FairTest study of NAEP results shows NCLB has not led to improved student learning.
Spoken Testimony To The Mass BOE Against Using Student Scores to Judge Teachers
Student Test Scores: An Inaccurate Way to Judge Teachers
Testimony to Mass Board of Education against using student scores to judge teachers.
Poll on NCLB: Americans Want a Useful Overhaul of Education Policy.
FairTest Press Release on 2011 State of the Union Speech
Racial Justice and Standardized Educational Testing
A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
FEA: A Research- and Experience-Based Turnaround Process
FEA Recommendations for Improving ESEA/NCLB – Summary and Full
FEA Recommendations for Improving ESEA/NCLB
Recommendations for Overhauling ESEA/NCLB
FairTest Reaction to President Obama’s State of the Union Proposals on School “Reform”
FairTest comments on US Education Department’s “Race to the Top Assessment Program” hearing in Boston on Nov. 12.
A Critical Analysis of the Citizen’s Commission on Civil Rights Report
FairTest – NEA State Assessment Reform Conference
Empowering Schools and Improving Learning
NAEP RESULTS PRODUCE MORE EVIDENCE OF NCLB’S FAILURE
Questions for Arne Duncan, Nominee for Secretary of Education
President-Elect Barack Obama on No Child Left Behind
Forum on Educational Accountability Successful in its Efforts to Improve the Higher Education Act
FairTest’s testimony on graduation tests to the Maryland Board of Ed.
Exit Strategies: Confronting Faulty Grad Tests by Latricia Wilson.
MA Readiness Project Members Criticize Final Report on MCAS and Assessments; Say MCAS Overhaul is Urgently Needed
Testimony of Lisa Guisbond to the PA Senate Ed. Committee
NCLB Administrative Tinkering Fails to Address the Flawed “Test and Punish” Policies Initiated By Nation at Risk Misdiagnosis
“Beyond NCLB” by Monty Neill Available at Rethinking Schools
April FairTest Examiner Newsletter Published
Testimony of Monty Neill, Ed.D. to the Rhode Island Board of Regents Regarding Proposed Graduation Requirements
Lisa Guisbond: All Hail R.I, Diploma System
Graduation Tests Will Harm Students. by Judith A. Browne-Dianis
FairTest’s Reaction to Secretary Spellings? ?Differentiated Accountability” Plan
Testimony of FairTest’s Monty Neill to the Maryland Joint Committee on Education/Ways and Means
Letter sent to Maryland January 2008
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)
Aspen Commission Proposals are “NCLB on Steroids;” Side-Effect Will Be More “Teaching to the Tests”
Education, Civil Rights, Disability, Religious Groups Promote “Redefining Accountability” To Replace “No Child Left Behind”
Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for “Multiple Measures” in “No Child” Overhaul Legislation (PDF)
New Report Challenges Strategies Promoted by Chicago School Officials and “No Child Left Behind”
NEW REPORT CHALLENGES STRATEGIES PROMOTED BY CHICAGO SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND “NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND”
STUDY SHOWS “TROUBLING” MINORITY H.S. GRADUATION PROBLEM IN MASSACHUSETTS
New Poll Shows Growing Discontent With “No Child” Law
“A Contrarian View of the Testing Industry,”
The January 18, 2006 Ed Week featured a piece on FairTest and the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB
Flatline NAEP Scores Show Failure of Test-Driven School Reform
No Child Left Behind Flunks on 3rd Anniversary Report Card; Law Needs Complete Overhaul to Promote School Reform
Arizona Republic piece on AIMS
Students Spared More MCAS Requirements; Commissioner Withdraws Proposal Due to Statewide Opposition to Using MCAS for College
New Study Finds Rewarding Schools for MCAS Score Gains Produces Flawed Results, Encourages Inappropriate Practices
WHY THE MCAS HURTS
AIMS Press Release
NAEP Reading Scores Show Testing Mania Fails to Improve Learning; Education Quality Undermined for Low-Income, Minority Children
Boston Parents Say No to the MCAS
California Teachers Association Statement – March 2001
Droppout Numbers in Boston Public Schools 1996-2000
High-Stakes Testing Flunks – USA Today op-ed September 7, 1999.
Testing, Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline
How Testing Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Congress Needs a Different ESEA Blueprint
FEA Press Release on proposed “No Child” Overhaul
Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning
FairTest critical comments on US Education Department’s “Race to the Top Fund” guidelines.
Why Graduation Tests/Exit Exams Fail to Add Value to High School Diplomas
Press Release: FairTest’s Testimony on the PA Graduation Test
Lisa Guisbond: Resist the testing bandwagon. Projo.com Op Ed.
?No Child Left Behind? After Six Years: An Escalating Track Record of Failure
FairTest’s Op Ed in The Atlanta Journal Constitution: When put to a test, testing culture flunks
NCLB?s Lost Decade Report
Letter from FairTest to all Presidential Candidates. October 2007
Video: “FairTest: You Can’t Judge Learning with a Standardized Test”
Seattle Teacher Refuses to Administer WASL Test to Students