New and Updated Fact Sheets:
Here are new and updated tools that parents, teachers, students and their allies can use to battle the overuse and misuse of standardized tests.
- Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out.
http://www.fairtest.org/get-involved/opting-out - Why You Can Boycott Standardized Tests without Fear of Federal Penalties to Your School.
http://www.fairtest.org/why-you-can-boycott-testing-without-fear - Federal Law and Regulations on Opting Out under ESSA (includes info on requirement to test 95% of students).
http://www.fairtest.org/federal-law-and-regulations-opting-out-under-essa - Personalized Learning or Continuous Online Testing?
http://www.fairtest.org/personalized-learning-or-continuous-online-testing - Time to Abolish High School Graduation Tests.
http://www.fairtest.org/time-abolish-high-school-graduation-tests - Graduation Test Update: States That Recently Eliminated or Scaled Back High School Exit Exams. (Only 13 states have them, down from 27).
http://www.fairtest.org/graduation-test-update-states-recently-eliminated
And don’t forget FairTest’s directory of the 925+ colleges that have SAT-ACT optional admissions policies.
These and all other fact sheets are available at http://www.fairtest.org/fact%20sheets.
March 2017