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Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing FairTest Examiner – April 2008 Reports of the death of opposition to exit exams has been greatly exaggerated, as shown by vigorous debates in New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Tennessee and Washington. Meanwhile, Nebraska’s and Rhode Island’s systems that use multiple and local measures are facing attacks designed to bring […]

Status: Archived Subject: General Testing How important is the test-score gap between racial groups in the U.S.? Can it be closed? These recurring questions have surfaced again in the media. One danger in this discussion is that in the effort to find ways to close the gap, those who score lower on tests will be […]

Harry FederHarry Feder is FairTest’s Executive Director as of August 2022. He came to FairTest after a long career in public education in New York City, as a social studies teacher at The Beacon School from 2008-2022 and at the Urban Academy Laboratory High School from 2000-2008. As a teacher Harry developed and taught secondary […]

Date: July 11, 2007 From: Monty Neill, Co-Executive Director, National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest); Chair, Forum on Educational Accountability (FEA) To: House education staff Re: Chairman Miller’s letter on NCLB to first year members of Congress The education, civil rights and other organizations that have signed the Joint Organizational Statement on NCLB […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing Important new research by Guanglei Hong and Stephen Raudenbush reinforces years of findings that retaining students in grade harms rather than hurts the retained students without providing benefits to non-retained/promoted students. They looked at young children, whom retention proponents often view as the “safest” children to hold back, and concluded […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing President George W. Bush’s former deputy secretary of education, Eugene W. Hickok, recently charged in the Washington Post that public schools are deliberately denying students’ access to No Child Left Behind’s tutoring provision. Hickok quotes Education Secretary Margaret Spellings, who says “the people in charge of the schools, who, in […]

Monty Neill, Ed.D. Excecutive Director National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) Paper presented to the AERA Annual Meeting, New York City, April 9, 1996 (Minor revisions, April 17, 1996) The Principles and Indicators for Student Assessment Systems (National Forum on Assessment, 1995) proposes a view of testing and assessment in elementary and secondary […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing “The administration likes to talk about the soft bigotry of low expectations and how this law fights that. But what about the hard bigotry of high expectations without adequate resources?”– Paul Houston, executive director, American Association of School Administrators As the “No Child Left Behind” Act (NCLB) completes its first […]

Action Alert! Cancel ALL State K-12 Exams Now — Testing Resistance & Reform News: March 16-24, 2020 States Must Apply for Federal Testing Waivers; Eliminate All Other Testing Requirements 65+ Ways Schools Have Cheated on Testing: Manipulating High-Stakes Exam Scores for Political Gain FairTest Statement on 2018 NAEP Result Release State ESSA Plans: Uneven Progress […]

Status: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing President Bush’s proposal to require every state to test every student each year in grades 3-8 has passed the House and is likely to pass the Senate with substantial support from both Republicans and Democrats. The legislation will require schools, districts and states to demonstrate test score gains, both in […]