The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
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.
Spotlight
"Empowering Schools and Improving Learning" Released
The Forum on Educational Accountability, chaired by FairTest, has released Empowering Schools and Improving Learning, signed by 84 national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent and civic organizations. It calls for a thorough overhaul of NCLB."What's Wrong with No Child Left Behind (NCLB), and What You Can Do to Change It"
FairTest has extensive information on NCLB. See the FairTest National pages for research, articles, fact sheets, legislation, and information on how you can help to change NCLB for the better.
FairTest's testimony on graduation tests to the Maryland Board of Ed.
FairTest's Monty Neill presented invited testimony ongraduation tests and alternatives to the Maryland Board of Education.