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Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Schools, Tests and Inequality, a special issue of School Voices, a New York City teachers publication, is now available. The special issue was co-edited by People About Change in Education (PACE) and The New York Campaign for Genuine Accountability in Education. The Campaign, led by the New York Public Interest […]

From organizing broad test opt-out campaigns to lobbying for the suspension of high-stakes consequences from test scores, students, parents, teachers and community leaders are forcing policy makes to admit that standardized exams administered this year to comply with politically motivated federal mandates will not be fair, valid or educationally sound. The range of effective strategies […]

As the last classrooms close for summer break, it’s a good time to look back — the past year has been among the best ever for the testing reform movement: more states eliminating exit exams; successful campaigns to rollback test-driven school grading schemes and the fastest ACT/SAT-optional growth rate in history. Next year should be […]

School testing season begins in many states this week, and grassroots protests are exploding across the nation. To help parents, students, educators and allies build more powerful testing resistance and assessment reform campaigns FairTest has released new and updated advocacy tools https://fairtest.orgdata.com.org/new-and-updated-fact-sheets NationalDeVos Says States Should Decide How Much Testing is “Actually Necessary”http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/campaign-k-12/2017/03/betsy_devos_states_should_decide_how_much_testing.html CaliforniaNew School […]

More assessment reform progress to report with Pennsylvania about to roll back its high school exit test and Indiana offering graduation pathways that do not rely on testing. But, there are still many stories about the negative impacts of testing overkill, particularly the damage done to minority and low-income children. Arizona Educators Blast “A to […]

By ALEX CAPUTO-PEARL I teach at one of the “100 worst” schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District. Superintendent Ruben Zacarias placed my school, John Muir Middle School, on probation last September primarily because its students scored low on the Stanford 9 test, along with not meeting other “key indicators” such as attendance and […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing While the U.S. Department of Education has approved initial No Child Left Behind implementation plans from all 50 states, many aspects of the states’ plans remain preliminary and in contention. Meanwhile, resistance among parents, teachers, school officials and state legislators continues to build as the potential negative consequences of NCLB […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The uproar over alleged cheating at a Connecticut school has exposed some of the fallout from the overuse of tests. Psychological trauma to students, community anger and recriminations, and the specter of declining property values have all emerged from the cheating scandal. While attention has focused on the alleged cheating, […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner – January 2008 Short reviews of books that are worth your time and consideration. These reviews focus on how the books address testing and assessment. English Learners in American Classrooms Rescuing the Public Schools: What It Will Take to Leave No Child Behind Letters to the Next President […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner, July 2009 Two recent publications add to the growing pressure to overhaul the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. Eighty-four national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent and civic organizations released one of the blueprints, Empowering Schools and Improving Learning. This report by the Forum for Educational […]