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USA Today 12/11/2001

By Monty Neill

Despite the high-sounding political slogan used to promote the scheme, the test-driven education package Congress is about to pass will leave many children behind. Requiring states to test every child in grades three to eight every year in reading and math — and use the results to penalize schools that don't boost scores sufficiently — will not ensure high standards or real accountability.

http://www.nytimes.com/2001/12/13/opinion/13JEFF.html

December 13, 2001

By GREG TOPPO
AP Education Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Rebelling against new school-testing demands, Vermont's governor says he wants his state to consider rejecting $26 million in federal education money to escape the requirements attached to it.

To: People Concerned With Excessive Testing in Wisconsin
From: Bob Peterson, Coalition for Responsible Assessment
Date: May 9, 2002

RE: Important hearings on ESEA implementation and TESTING in Wisconsin

The Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction is going to release its
draft "Consolidated State Plan" required under the Federal Elementary and
Secondary Education Act (ESEA) and is holding public hearings on May 14

New federal mandates ignore music, art, social studies and critical-thinking skills.
By Register Editorial Board
http://www.dmregister.com/opinion/stories/c2125555/20618299.html

03/03/2003
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It's all about the test now.

Deseret News (Salt Lake City) -- October 28, 2003
by Doug Robinson

Today's column: Trying to understand the federal government's No Child
Left Behind law.

Or, as educators fondly call it, No Child Left Untested. Or, No Teacher
Left Standing. Or, No Child Left. Or, No Child's Behind Left.

I hope you picked up the sarcasm. If there's one thing that makes a
teacher madder than a kid with a spitball, it's this Alice-in-Wonderland
legislation.

For further information: Dr. Monty Neill (857) 350-8207 or Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773

For immediate release Friday, September 3, 2004

Education Week, January 18, 2006

By Andrew Trotter and Michelle R. Davis
Washington

A coalition of school, civil rights, and child-advocacy groups handed a list of 14 recommendations for changing the federal No Child Left Behind Act to congressional staff members at the U.S. Capitol last week, just a day after President Bush vigorously defended the law on its fourth anniversary.

for further information:
Bob Schaeffer (239) 395-6773
Cell (239) 699-0468 for use with annual ACT score release -- 12:01am Wednesday, August 15, 2007