Reports

Below find materials by other organizations and individuals about the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) and its predecessor, No Child Left Behind (NLCB).

• 2018: State ESSA Plans: Uneven Progress Toward Better Assessment and Accountability

• 2017: FairTest Report: Test Reform Victories Surge in 2017: What’s Behind the Winning Strategies?

• “Overhauling Assessment Systems” summarizes the Forum on Educational Accountability’s (FEA) analysis and positions. (FairTest chaired FEA.) It discusses assessment for instruction as well as for accountability of schools and educators. It states FEA’s concerns with NCLB and related federal policy, and offers recommendations for new and better assessment. It is based on the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB http://www.fairtest.org/node/30 endorsed by more than 150 national organizations. See also national testing alternatives. https://fairtest.orgdata.com.org/national/alternatives
  
• FairTest and five other groups wrote this position paper on NCLB/ESEA and the school-to-prison pipeline, which looks at testing, “zero tolerance” and other problems, and makes recommendations.
  
• “Many Children Left Behind,” book on NCLB, reviewed in Summer 2004 Examiner.
  
• Test Today, Privatize Tomorrow: Using Accountability to ‘Reform’ Public Schools to Death, by Alfie Kohn, in April 2004 Phi Delta Kappan.
  
• The No Child Left Behind Hoax by Stan Karp
  
• Let Them Eat Tests is a fine evaluation of the new Elementary and Secondary Education Act from Rethinking Schools
  
• Issues and Arguments on the Federally Mandated Testing Plan