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2010 COLLEGE BOUND SENIORS AVERAGE ACT SCORES

Approximately 1.57 million test takers, of whom ~55% were female

for immediate release, Tuesday, August 17, 2010

A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools

By Monty Neill

Published in Education Week Online: June 18, 2010

June 17, 2010

Friday's New York Times gives FairTest the lead reaction quote in a story about how high-stakes testing pressures cause some educators to cheat on standardized tests.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/11/education/11cheat.html?src=mv

The article, (also posted on the nytimes.com home page), includes a link to our website, which has already generated dozens of visitor referrals.  This is the fifth or sixth time the nation's leading newspaper has quoted FairTest this year.

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FairTest and Advancement Project co-sponsored a webinar on testing, discipline
and the school-to-prison pipeline.

Check out the powerpoint presentation from the webinar here.

Watch a film of the Webinar here.

FEA's revised 2011 two-page summary of its
recommendations on the reauthorization of ESEA is here.

4/9/10: FairTest had a featured contribution in the popular Washington Post blog '"The Answer Sheet"  --

      http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/guest-bloggers/obama-ed-bl...

Friday, 4/2/10, FairTest had a long letter-to-the-editor that ran across the top of the USA Today editorial page --

      http://blogs.usatoday.com/oped/2010/04/letters-testandpunish-system-is-i...