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State Coordinators:
Resources:
- Website
www.calcare.org
or
www.schoolvoices.org
- The State of Teacher Education in California
- Injunction against California Exit Exam
- LA Board passes resolution opposing high-stakes and for alternative assessments. See LA Times story on the resolutions. Read SF Resolution
For info on LA organizing - contact CEJ at Caputoprl@aol.com.
For info on SF organizing - contact T4SJ at pilgrim@muse.sfusd.edu or
ksuda5@yahoo.com. - News story on harmful consequences of California testing program with
important implications for new federal testing requirements. Currently
on this site, look to upper right of home page for box to click on. http://www.ocregister.com/ - Challenging High-Stakes Standardized Testing: Working to Build an
Anti-racist, Progressive Social Movement in Public Education, By Alex
Caputo-Pearl http://www.calcare.org/reading/index.html - The old-school belief in racial equality through public education gets new blood
- News Story: Panel urges suspension of exit exam
- Report from meeting of the California Alternate Assessment task force
- Social Justice and Assessment NOTES Newsletter (PDF)
- Californians for Justice Report on high school exit exam. First Things First: Why we must stop punishing students and fix California's schools.(PDF)
- Social Justice and Assessment, a bi-monthly electronic newsletter; to subscribe, contact Kathy Emery at mke4think@hotmail.com
- The Search for the Truth - High Stakes Testing is Ruining Your Child's Education. (Power Point Presentation) Powerpoint Viewer, a free tool that allows people without the full program to read MSPowerpoint files, is available
on-line at: http://office.microsoft.com/downloads/2000/Ppview97.aspx
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