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Despite severe weather across the southern U.S., campaigns against standardized exam overkill and for better methods of assessment continue to accelerate. FairTest hopes all our allies in Texas, Florida and other states hit hard by hurricanes Harvey and Irma are safe and will soon be able to return to their effective assessment reform activism. ArizonaEducators […]

This week’s edition is jam-packed with stories about both the flaws of relying on standardized exams to make high-stakes educational decisions as well as successful campaigns to roll back testing misuse and overuse. If you find these updates helpful, note that FairTest has changed its online donation provider to PayPal, so that you can support […]

Early fall is a very busy season for assessment reformers across the nation, as this week’s stories from a third of the states plus higher education and overseas clearly show. Policy makers are paying particular attention to their constituents’ concerns as Election Day draws near. National The Flaws in NAEP “Achievement Levels” https://dianeravitch.net/2018/09/20/the-letter-i-wrote-about-changing-naep-achievement-levels-you-write-one-too/ California Don’t […]

Big news this week: New York State, whose “Regents Exams” are often cited as a model for other state assessment programs, is rethinking its graduation test requrement. With increasing grassroots pressure from parents, students, educators and community activists during the new school year, even more jurisdictions will roll back standardized exam misuse and overuse. California […]

Any notion that the new federal education law would slow the grassroots testing resistance and reform movement should be put to rest by even a quick skim of this week’s headlines. From Alaska to Florida and Maine to California parents, educators and community activists are escalating pressure on state and local policy makers to reduce […]

FairTest is pleased to announce that Andre Green will take over as Executive Director later this summer when Dr. Monty Neill retires. For details about Andre’s background and early information about a November event to honor Monty and welcome Andre: http://www.fairtest.org/andre-green-be-new-fairtest-executive-director-whe National Questions and Answers About ESSA’s Testing Requirement http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2018/07/essa_testing_funding.html Arkansas Test Scores, Damn Lies, […]

Less Testing, More Learning Testimony to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee Monty Neill, Ed.D., Executive Director, FairTest (National Center for Fair & Open Testing) Emailed to FixingNCLB@help.senate.gov (NOTE: for a print friendly PDF of this document click here.) February 2, 2015 Dear Chairman Alexander, Ranking Member Murray, and Members of the […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner – July 2007 How’s this for a challenge? For her senior project at the School Without Walls High School in Rochester, NY, 19-year-old Roya Sakhizada explained how CAT scans work, something she became familiar with working at a Rochester hospital. After her six-month community service stint, the hospital […]

for further information:Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773cell: (239) 699-0468 for immediate release, Thursday, July 14, 2005 “The generally lackluster performance reported by the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) demonstrates the failure of the test-and-punish approach to meaningfully improve the quality of schooling for U.S. children,” according to the National Center for Fair & Open Testing […]

INDEPENDENT TEST RESULTS SHOW NCLB FAILS No Child Left Behind (NCLB) was signed into law in 2002, the latest version of the long-standing Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Its provisions, such as testing grades 3-8 annually in reading and math and punitive sanctions, took effect over the next several years. The law is eight […]