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8 Ways To Fight High-Stakes Testing Infographic
Eight Steps to Work for Testing Reform Fact Sheet
What's Wrong with Standardized Tests Infographic
FairTest Fact Sheet: Why Teacher Evaluation Shouldn’t Rest on Student Test Scores
Common Core Assessments: More Tests, But Not Much Better
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing - Sign Now!
FairTest responds to the Administration's dangerous "flexibility" proposals to change NCLB.
Fact Sheet: "Tests, Cheating and Educational Corruption"
Racial Justice and Standardized Educational Testing
Fact Sheet: A Better Way to Evaluate Schools (PDF)
The Real Facts About Waiting for Superman
NCLB and Assessing Bilingual Students
WHAT TO LOOK FOR IN THE 2010 ACT & SAT SCORE REPORTS
Recommendations for Overhauling ESEA/NCLB
Eight Ways to Work for NCLB Reform
Fact Sheet: Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations
How Testing Feeds the School-to-Prison Pipeline
Position Paper on Assessment for Learning
Paying Teachers for Student Test Scores Damages Schools and Undermines Learning
Why Graduation Tests/Exit Exams Fail to Add Value to High School Diplomas
How Standardized Testing Damages Education (Updated July 2012)
Questions for Test Proponents About "New" University Admissions Exams
Media Strategy Chart: Advantages and Limitations
Computerized Testing: More Questions than Answers
Gender Bias in College Admissions Tests
Gender Bias in Proposition 16 and 48
Should NCLB cause most schools to Fail?
What's Wrong with Proposition 48 and 16?
"Healthy" Medical School Admissions
Confronting the Myths of No Child Left Behind
“No Child Left Behind” After Six Years: An Escalating Track Record of Failure
Different Tests, Same Flaws: A Comparison of the SAT, SAT II and ACT
10 Myths about the SAT
Selected Annotated Bibliography on The SAT: Bias and Misuse
SAT I: A Faulty Instrument For Predicting College Success
The "New" SAT: A Better Test or Just a Marketing Ploy?
The SAT: Questions and Answers
Schools Where the SAT I & ACT Are De-emphasized in Admissions
The ACT: Biased, Inaccurate, and Misused
Examining the GRE: Myths, Misuses, and Alternatives
GMAT - Padlock on MBA Admissions Gates
The Proper Use of End-of-Course Exams in Determining High School Graduation
What's Wrong with Graduation and Promotion Tests
The SAT: Questions and Answers (PDF)
The Value of Formative Assessment
Achievement Tests for Young Children
Readiness Tests
The Testing Explosion
A FairTest Position Statement on NCLB
How Standardized Testing Damages Education
Chicago Parents Guide to Testing
Chicago Parents Guide to Testing (Spanish Version)
What is the "No Child Left Behind" Law?
Parents Say No to Ohio Proficiency Test
Wisconsin Standards and Assessments Q & A
What's Wrong With Standardized Tests?
The Dangerous Consequences of High-Stakes Standardized Testing
GMAT - Padlock on MBA Admissions Gates (PDF)
National Council of Teachers of English: 1998 Resolution
How to Use the Freedom of Information Act
Second Grade Testing: A Position Paper
Will More Testing Improve Schools?
Why "No Child Left Behind" Will Fail Our Children
Authentic Accountability
Reality-Testing NCLB
What is NCLB?
Multiple-Choice Tests
Achievement Tests for Young Children (PDF)
Criterion- and Standards- Referenced Tests
Norm-Referenced Achievement Tests
The Limits of Standardized Tests for Diagnosing and Assisting Student Learning
Leaving Children Behind (PDF)
Testing and Grade Retention
High Stakes Tests Do Not Improve Student Learning
Measuring Learning Does Not Improve Learning: Fact Sheet on Bill Clinton's National Testing Plan
"How to Improve High-Stakes Test Scores Without Really Improving"
Criterion- and Standards- Referenced Tests (PDF)
Why "No Child Left Behind" Will Fail Our Children
Reality-Testing NCLB (PDF)

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