Videos

A collection of clips of FairTest staff and allies speaking on testing issues:

• Watch teacher Bianca Tanis describe how testing and corporate pressure have damaged early childhood education in this two-minute video from Defending the Early Years. https://www.deyproject.org/dey-2-minute-documentary-series.html

• St. Paul, Minnesota students speak out against testing and its harmful consequences in this very strong, short video.  https://youtu.be/SNHYPtsNBFk

• See the short video FairTest: You Can't Judge Learning with a Standardized Test available on YouTube. Thanks to Marco Greenberg, Eric Sagotsky and Tracey Leffler for assisting FairTest staff in creating this video.

• Tufts University student James Gerber's video on how Massachusetts' MCAS standardized history test will undermine Boston Arts Academy's in-depth and multifaceted approach to teaching art and history.
  It is in two parts, part I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Mh5GonqJoQ and part II http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVI6BfBZGPg&NR=1

• A humorous and gentle 2-minute video and song from Tom Chapin, Not on the Test illustrates all the things not done in school because they are... http://www.notonthetest.com/
  

• People offer cogent criticisms of NCLB on this 9-minute video, No Child Left Behind: Truths and Consequences: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSTzLILQx3c&feature=related

• Educator Roundtable's 45-second spot highlights the socio-economic gaps that largely underlie the educational achievement gap: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVmPKvhsNVk&eurl=http://www.educatorroundtable.net/frontPage.do.

• Watch as FairTest Executive Director Monty Neill discusses NCLB and testing at a Chicago forum, with group conversation;

  • Video Link: 30 minutes.

  • Shorter Video Link: 12 Minutes

• Testing Mrs. Grube and A Different Standard pose the same urgent question from radically different perspectives: is the national standards movement in education - and its main component, "high-stakes" standardized testing - negatively impacting public schools, administrators, teachers and children? Distributed by Ondine Rarey Productions, www.ondinerareyproductions.com
  
• Echoes in the Hallway is a student-acted play in response to testing. Order at www.echoesinthehallway.com
  
  
• Go to Coalition for Common Sense in Education Web Site to watch/listen to presentations.
   
• Positive Insights on Education: Alternatives to Standardized Education, is a half-hour interview with FairTest director Monty Neill, available from Agency for Instructional Technology for $89.00.
   
• The Merrow Report's Testing... Testing... Testing is an hourlong discussion/debate over testing and its impacts. This tape is a good way to introduce the issues. Among those featured is FairTest's Monty Neill. - Merrow has other videos of interest, including Testing Our Schools.