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This week’s top stories include several about Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools (AROS) “Walk-Ins” around the country. The coordinated events included a strong call to end high-stakes tests to make time for more teaching and learning. National School Testing Opponents Plan Next Stepshttp://www.wsj.com/articles/school-testing-opponents-plan-next-steps-147…National Assessment Matters: Constructing Model State Systems to Replace Testing Overkillhttps://fairtest.orgdata.com.org/assessment-matters-constructing-model-state-system Alabama Time […]

The drumbeat of criticism documenting the negative fallout from test-driven education policies grows ever louder. With each passing school day, more parents, teachers, administrators and community leaders recognize the damage being inflicted on educational quality and equity. It’s time for policymakers to pay attention . . . or be replaced! California Assigning Single Grade to […]

It’s only the first month of the school year, but assessment reformers are already winning victories that reverse regressive policies. At the same time, more candidates for public office are reflecting the concerns of parents, educators and community leaders by incorporating calls to overhaul testing in their campaign platforms. California Teachers Question New Standardized Testing […]

Interesting to note that so much of the growing pressure to suspend spring 2021 school tests (or minimize the impact of their results) is coming from regions where assessment reform campaigns have not been particularly strong in the past. Leadership from states such as Georgia, Maine, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and Wyoming will add to […]

Teacher test boycotts, student-led opt-out campaigns, parent-organized petition drives, school administrators’ lobbying efforts, and elected officials’ letters to DC policymakers all are calling for a major cutback in high-stakes testing and the implementation of assessment reform alternatives. Just look at the breadth of the movement reported in stories and opinion columns from just the past […]

In less than a week, there’s news of progress in the movement to resist high-stakes testing overkill from Rhode Island, Washington, Colorado, Oregon, Texas, New York, Florida, Minnesota and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, those who profit from promoting standardized exams — financially and politically — stubbornly try to “stay the course” no matter how much damage to […]

As peak school testing season nears in many states, grassroots activists are winning more and more victories against standardized exam overuse and misuse. Parents, educators, community leaders and their allies need to keep pressure on policy makers to curb testing overkill and create more space for performance assessments. ArkansasRethinking School Grades http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2017/apr/16/new-laws-focus-on-english-learners-scho/ CaliforniaHigh Schools Turning […]

Standardized tests have historically been used as measures of how students compare with each other (norm-referenced) or how much of a particular curriculum they have learned (criterion-referenced). Increasingly, standardized tests are being used to make major decisions about students, such as grade promotion or high school graduation, and schools. More and more often, they also […]

States and districts should not bar students from graduating based solely on standardized test scores. The Standards on Educational and Psychological Testing of the American Psychological Association, American Educational Research Association and National Council on Measurement in Education states that a major decision about a student should not be made “on the basis of a […]

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