Assessment Matters: Constructing Model State Systems to Replace Testing Overkill
This report describes how states can overhaul their assessment systems under the Innovative Assessment pilot program in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). It shows policymakers how to:
NCLB’s Lost Decade for Educational Progress: What Can We Learn from this Policy Failure?
By Lisa Guisbond with Monty Neill and Bob Schaeffer January 2012
The federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law failed badly in terms of its own goals, leading to a decade of educational stagnation, according to FairTest’s report marking NCLB’s tenth anniversary.
Source of up-to-date information on testing reform. Includes updates on state and federal legislation, reports on test misuse and efforts to stop it and profiles of promising new assessment systems. Covers school, university and employment testing.