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FairTest Press Release: Standardized Exam Cheating In 37 States And D.C.; New Report Shows Widespread Test Score Corruption
Pop Quiz on Testing: Are You Keeping Up?
FairTest Commentary: Chicago Strike Echos High-Stakes Testing Resistance
Resistance to High Stakes Testing Spreads
NEW SCHOOL YEAR: DOUBLING DOWN ON FAILED ED. POLICY
How You Can Build Support for the National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing!
Op-ed published in Charlotte (NC) on The National Resolution
Sample letter to editor on the National Resolution (longer)
Sample Sample letter to editor on the National Resolution (short)
Sample Letter to state and federal legislators on the National Resolution
Sample Letter to friends and colleagues on the National Resolution
High-Stakes Testing Resistance Spreads Across Nation
Testing Reform in the News -- June 8 - 12, 2012
National Resolution on High-Stakes Testing - Sign Now!
FairTest to Honor Diane Ravitch with the Deborah W. Meier Hero in Education Award
Summary and Critique of Key Provisions in Harkin-Enzi ESEA/NCLB Reauthorization Bill of October 2011
What to say when you call your senator about NCLB
FairTest Key Recommendations to the Senate, October 16, 2011
Contacting your Senators to recommend changes to NCLB
Models for Writing About Personal Experience with NCLB
FairTest responds to the Administration's dangerous "flexibility" proposals to change NCLB.
What Should Congress Do About Teacher Evaluation?
FairTest Critiques Sen. Alexander's ESEA-NCLB proposals: The few benefits don't outweigh the problems.
Monty Neill's second written testimony to Mass Bd of Ed on teacher evaluation
Monty Neill's second written testimony to Mass Bd of Ed on teacher evaluation
ESEA Reauthorization and Ending the "School-to-Prison" Pipeline: A Congressional Briefing
Detailed FairTest study of NAEP results shows NCLB has not led to improved student learning.
Poll on NCLB: Americans Want a Useful Overhaul of Education Policy.
Position Paper on NCLB and the School to Prison Pipeline
FairTest Press Release on 2011 State of the Union Speech
NCLB and Assessing Bilingual Students
A Better Way to Assess Students and Evaluate Schools
FEA: A Research- and Experience-Based Turnaround Process
Multiple Measures: A Definition and Examples from the U.S. and Other Nations
FEA Recommendations for Improving ESEA/NCLB - Summary and Full
Recommendations for Overhauling ESEA/NCLB
FairTest comments on US Education Department's "Race to the Top Assessment Program" hearing in Boston on Nov. 12.
NAEP RESULTS PRODUCE MORE EVIDENCE OF NCLB'S FAILURE
Questions for Arne Duncan, Nominee for Secretary of Education
President-Elect Barack Obama on No Child Left Behind
Forum on Educational Accountability Successful in its Efforts to Improve the Higher Education Act
FairTest Article on NCLB in AFSC journal Peacework
Refocusing Accountability
Head Start Letter
Summary of Proposed Legislative Changes to ESEA/NCLB
Aspen Commission Proposals are "NCLB on Steroids;" Side-Effect Will Be More "Teaching to the Tests" (PDF)
Letter in Opposition to Testing Head Start Children
National Assessment of Educational Progress and National Assessment Governing Board
PURE testimony to the Senate Education Committee Subcommittee on NCLB
High School Testing: Letter to Congress
Classroom Caste System
Letter to the Nation
Forum on Educational Accountability Proposed ESEA/NCLB Amendments
Seven Ways to Work to Overhaul the Federal Education Law (ESEA/NCLB)
Another (Easy) Way to Act for NCLB Change
Act TODAY for NCLB Overhaul
Ensure U.S. House Really Overhauls NCLB
Keep up the Pressure for Real NCLB Reform!
A Draft Alternative Approach to Accountability
Performance Assessment Language for ESEA
Statement of FairTest in Reaction to Pres. Bush Signing "Leave No Child Behind Act"
Minimum Revisions Needed to Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Testing and Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) Provisions
Issues and Arguments on Bush Testing Plan
Impact of ESEA on Massachusetts
Summary of the New Elementary and Secondary Education Act
ESEA Draft Rules
MCAS Gains are Unreliable Basis for "High Performing" School Awards; Annual Score Increases Often are Not Sustained
Testing Industry Not Competent to Handle Bush Exam Expansion Plan
How "Improvement" Works in ESEA
Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for "Multiple Measures" in "No Child" Overhaul Legislation
Test Reformers React to New National Poll on "No Child Left Behind" (PDF)
Civil Rights, Disability Orgs. Call for "Multiple Measures" in "No Child" Overhaul Legislation (PDF)
NEW REPORT CHALLENGES STRATEGIES PROMOTED BY CHICAGO SCHOOL OFFICIALS AND "NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND"
No Child Left Behind Flunks on 3rd Anniversary Report Card; Law Needs Complete Overhaul to Promote School Reform
Eight Ways to Work for NCLB Reform
Testing, Discipline and the School to Prison Pipeline
Congress Needs a Different ESEA Blueprint
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
FairTest's Op Ed in The Atlanta Journal Constitution: When put to a test, testing culture flunks
A FairTest Position Statement on NCLB
What is the "No Child Left Behind" Law?
NCLB’s Lost Decade Report
Letter from FairTest to all Presidential Candidates. October 2007
Reality-Testing NCLB
What is NCLB?
Video: "FairTest: You Can't Judge Learning with a Standardized Test"
High Stakes Tests Do Not Improve Student Learning
Reality-Testing NCLB (PDF)

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