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Thousands of readers like you — grassroots activists, educators, journalists, and policy-makers — rely on these weekly news clips to stay on top of assessment reform initiatives around the nation. Your year-end contribution makes it possible for FairTest to publish these updates as well as advocacy tools such as the new fact sheets linked in […]

Harry Feder, a public-school teacher and attorney who is an expert in performance assessment, is the new Executive Director of the National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest). Feder previously taught history at the Beacon School in New York City, a member of the New York State Performance Assessment Consortium for which he also did legal work. He […]

Back-to-school season is the same time when last year’s state standardized exams scores are released. Does that make sense? Certainly not, if the purpose of assessment is to provide feedback that can help improve teaching and learning. That’s increasingly the reaction of education leaders and policy makers, as this week’s news clips demonstrate. You can […]

With stories from 20 states, this week’s news clips demonstrate the breadth and depth of the grassroots assessment reform movement. Effective advocacy by parents, students, educators and community leaders across the nation is pressuring more and more policy makers to cut back testing overuse and misuse, creating space for better systems of assessment. NationalLong Judged […]

Testing reform stories from 20 states in just the past week demonstrate the breadth and depth of the movement to replace high-stakes, standardized exams with better forms of assessment. If you see a news clip worth of circulation to a national list of 2,000+ activists, please forward it to bobschaeffer@fairtest.org And, remember that previous editions […]

Lots of stories this week demonstrating the impact of opting out and other effective protests against standardized exam overkill. Please continue to support the testing resistance and reform movement through your own grassroots work and by making a contribution to FairTest at: https://donatenow.networkforgood.org/fairtest Colorado Standardized Exam Driven Schools Test a Parent’s Patiencehttp://www.summitdaily.com/news/20569091-113/brown-wolf-standardized-schools-test-a-parents-patience-column Connecticut Governor Threatens […]

With less than 100 days left before the November 2018 elections, grassroots activists are increasing the pressure on contenders for Congress, statewide offices, legislative seats, and local school boards to speak out against testing misuse and overuse. This is the season to get the attention of public officials and win their commitment to genuine assessment […]

With classrooms opening — or preparing to do so — around the U.S., there’s a seasonal uptick in the volume of stories about teachers, administrators, community activists, and policy makers questioning the value of standardized exam scores, which have long dominated education policy making. Clearly time to ratchet up grassroots pressure, which drives policy change. […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing If Congress craves advice on how to fix NCLB, there’s no lack of organizations vying to provide it. Many of the groups’ proposals, such as those from the Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) take aim at the law’s most glaring problems, such as the widely criticized requirement for 100% proficiency […]

Promoting Sound Assessment – a paper prepared by FairTest for the American Association of School Administrators, published on our website with permission. What Superintendents Can Do to Promote Sound Assessment in Light of NCLB By Monty Neill, Ed.D. Co-Executive Director FairTest As implemented in all but a few states, NCLB accountability requirements are based almost […]