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Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing The misnamed “Leave No Child Behind Act” will almost certainly cause grave damage to high quality education and inhibit efforts to improve schools that most need help. In states with intense high-stakes testing systems, the situation will not be much worse, but will not improve. In other states, the quality […]

Criterion-referenced tests (CRTs) are intended to measure how well a person has learned a specific body of knowledge and skills. Multiple-choice tests most people take to get a driver’s license and on-the-road driving tests are both examples of criterion-referenced tests. As on most other CRTs, it is possible for everyone to earn a passing score […]

The pace of testing resistance news seems to increase with every passing week. Just wait until the annual late-winter/early-spring testing season when more opt-out and boycott campaigns kick in If you are aware of other actions that should be shared nationally, please send FairTest links to the stories. How You Can Help Build the Movement […]

ESEA Reauthorization: A New Basis to Expand High-Stakes Testing Resistance and Assessment Reform By Monty Neill Years overdue, Congress is about to vote on replacing the test-and-punish mandates of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) with a comprehensive overhaul of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The re-write will also end the even more punitive […]

FairTest’s work to reduce the role of standardized tests as gatekeepers to higher education has never been more important – nor has it had as much support. Nationwide, scores of colleges and universities are reexamining their admissions policies and de-emphasizing test scores. Visit the following pages to learn more about our work on university testing […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing As the nation commemorates the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s Brown v. Board of Education decision abolishing legal segregation in public schools, civil rights leaders are stepping up their criticism of the federal “No Child Left Behind” (NCLB) Act and its high-stakes testing underpinnings. Speaking in Topeka, Kansas, on […]

While the top law schools have withdrawn from actively participating in the U.S. News and World Report Rankings, and a few undergraduate institutions like Columbia University and Colorado College have followed suit, the business of ranking and sorting schools continues apace. The practice is particularly corrosive for elementary, middle and high schools, where standardized test […]

What is the “No Child Left Behind” Law? The No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) is a federal law that provides money for extra educational assistance for poor children in return for improvements in their academic progress. NCLB is the most recent version of the 1965 Elementary and Secondary Education Act. States set educational proficiency […]

Please help FairTest celebrate “Deb Meier Hero in Education” winners — Schott Foundation President John Jackson and Mass. Teachers Association President Barbara Madeloni — by making a contribution in their honor at:https://fairtest.org.networkforgood.com/events/3235-fairtest-celebrates-john… National Overwhelming Percentages of Math, English Teachers Oppose Current Testshttp://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/teacherbeat/2017/10/teachers_say_state_st… Arizona Ongoing Problems With Test Scores and Their Misusehttps://www.tucsonweekly.com/TheRange/archives/2017/10/03/why-i-keep-wri… California Voters Endorse Recent […]

This week’s many stories of K-12 assessment reform progress through state ESSA plans and school districts slashing standardized exam requirements are offset by examples of ongoing testing overkill. As another academic year begins, grassroots activists — including parents, students, educators and community leaders — plan to escalate campaigns to root out policies that encourage test […]