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K-12 Testing Fact Sheets

WEBStandardized Testing and Students with Disabilities. Computerized Testing Problems – A Chronology (Updated June 2017) Also available as PDF. “How high-stakes standardized …

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Q&A With FairTest's Public Education Director

WEBThursday, August 02, 2007. originally published on http://www.admissionsadvice.com/. For two decades FairTest, a small non-profit organization, has been the leading

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Standardized Testing and Students with Disabilities

WEBA focus on including Students with Disabilities (SWDs) in standardized testing puts the cart of testing before the horse of delivering appropriate instruction, …

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Fact Sheet for Families on Testing and Young Children

WEBWhy testing is not needed • Evaluating young children is different than evaluating older children and adults. Because young children learn differently than older children and …

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Testing Resistance & Reform News: August 11 – 17, 2021

WEBAs classrooms reopen for the fall with debates over face masks and other COVID protection policies, some states remain fixated on standardized test results, not …

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Empowering Schools and Improving Learning

WEBThe federal government has a limited but important role to play in realizing this vision of high quality schooling for all. It should help provide the tools and resources …

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Testing Resistance & Reform News: July 4 – 10, 2018

WEBMore “fallout from the testing explosion” as this week’s stories document both the damage from high-stakes standardized overkill and the growing grassroots …

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Testing Resistance & Reform News: May 15 – 21, 2019

WEBWidespread controversy around the College Board’s new “Adversity Score” for college applicants highlighted why relying on test results to make high-stakes …

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Massachusetts Statement against High-Stakes Standardized …

WEBARN , k-12 , news , whats new. by Massachusetts Professors and Researchers There has been a ground swell of opposition to the overuse and misuse of …

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How high-stakes standardized testing is harming our children …

WEBThe number of ADHD diagnoses has ballooned – from 5% in early 1990s to 11% in 2013. Researchers found a correlation between states with the highest rates of ADHD …

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Just Say No to Standardized Tests: Why and How to Opt Out

WEBThe Biden Administration's decision to require the administration of federally mandated standardized exams this year contradicts the judgement of parents, educators, and …

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High Stakes, High Risks: The Dangers of High Stakes Testing

WEBContinuing the course of high-stakes testing will only deepen the crisis in schools serving our most vulnerable children and wreak terrible consequences on their communities. …

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How Standardized Testing Damages Education

WEBconsistently rise. Schools narrow and manipulate the curriculum to match the test, while teachers tend to cover only what is likely to be on the next exam.

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GENERIC OPT OUT LETTER GUIDELINES

WEB262 U.S. 390, 402.) In Meyer, the Supreme Court held that the right of parents to raise their children free from unreasonable state interferences is one of the unwritten

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Work Sampling System

WEBStatus: Archived Subject: K-12 Testing As assessment changes from norm-referenced, multiple-choice tests to performance assessments, the manner in which the …

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1,830+ Accredited, 4-Year Colleges & Universities with …

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The Dangerous Consequences of High-Stakes Standardized …

WEBThis includes commercial norm-referenced tests as well as state criterion- referenced or standards-based exams. They can include multiple-choice or open-ended (constructed) …

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