K-12 Testing Fact Sheets

FairTest has authored many helpful fact sheets.
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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
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
Should NCLB cause most schools to Fail?
Confronting the Myths of No Child Left Behind
“No Child Left Behind” After Six Years: An Escalating Track Record of Failure
The Proper Use of End-of-Course Exams in Determining High School Graduation
What's Wrong with Graduation and Promotion Tests
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
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 Standardized Testing Damages Education
"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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