The National Center for Fair & Open Testing (FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation of students, teachers and schools is fair, open, valid and educationally beneficial.
Please join FairTest in honoring MICHELLE FINE with the presentation of THE DEBORAH W. MEIER AWARD FOR HEROES IN EDUCATION. The ceremony will also fearture NY Principal Carol Burris.
Wednesday, May 28, 2014, 6 – 8:30 PM, Julia Richman Education Complex, 317 East 67th Street, New York, NY
Testing Resistance & Reform Spring will help you connect with local protest actions, network with allies, and learn about best organizing practices around the nation.
The changes may make the SAT appear more consumer-friendly. But they do not make it a better test. Most of the revisions are marketing bells and whistles. None address the exam's fundamental weaknesses. . .
This new infographic and fact sheet show that looming multi-state standardized exams will remain mostly multiple-choice, will be misused for high-stakes purposes, and will fail to help improve education.
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More than 800 four-year colleges and universities do not use the SAT or ACT to admit substantial numbers of bachelor-degree applicants.
