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.

Learn more about us and our mission.

Spotlight

FairTest: You Can't Judge Learning with a Standardized Test

See the short video FairTest: You Can't Judge Learning with a Standardized Test available on YouTube.

Joint Statement

More than 140 national education and civil rights groups issue a joint statement sent to Congress calling for major changes in No Child Left Behind Law; See more on the National Testing Page.

FairTest Thanks Brenda Engel

We give a special thank you to long-time testing reform educator Brenda Engel. Brenda is also a fine watercolorist, and she generously donated the proceeds from her recent Cambridge, MA gallery show to FairTest.