I have spoken with many parents in NYC and I have 4 daughters of my own. I have heard from parents and stakeholders that they want to have nationally funded assessments but only if these assessments are fair, and based upon the curricula and what students are learning in the classroom.
All children are more, much more, than a number.
Betsy Combier
betsy.combier@gmail.com
Editor, NYC Rubber Room Reporter
Editor, Parentadvocates.org
Editor, New York Court Corruption
Editor, National Public Voice
Editor, NYC Rubber Room Reporter
Editor, Parentadvocates.org
Editor, New York Court Corruption
Editor, National Public Voice
The Testing Resistance and Reform
Movement, Monthly Review
Submitted by fairtest on
March 7, 2016 - 3:38pm
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"[The] refusal to participate in federally mandated testing
programs likely represents a turning point in the history of assessment reform
in the United States. The next few years will tell, as activists plan to
dramatically increase refusals and to win policy changes in the states. Their
avowed goals include less testing, an end to high-stakes uses of tests (that
is, making decisions about students, educators, or schools solely or primarily
on test scores), and implementation of other, educationally sound assessment
practices.
"This essay briefly traces the history of testing in public
schools from its beginnings in the 1920s, through the counter-productive No
Child Left Behind (NCLB) federal law, to passage of the Every Student Succeeds
Act (ESSA) in December 2015. It then discusses the recent and rapid emergence
of the testing resistance and reform movement."
The article is one in a special Monthly Review issue, The Opt Out
Revolt.
The complete issue is at http://monthlyreview.org/archives/2016/volume-67-issue-10-march/ (articles are made available for free over a
multi-week span before the whole issue is free).
Monthly Review requests that people subscribe so they can also
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National Why All Families Should Opt Out ofHigh-Stakes Standardized Tests
National Testing Time at Schools, Is There a Better Way
National Opt-Out Movement Aims to Reach More African American and LatinoFamilies
National Three Cheers for the Opt-Out Movement
Multiple States SomeStandardized Testing On Hold In More Than a Dozen States
Multiple States Updated FairTest Chronology of Computerized Testing Problems
Multiple States Number of Jurisdictions With High School Graduation Tests DropsSignificantly, Now Just 15
Bob Schaeffer, Public Education Director
FairTest: National Center for Fair & Open Testing
office- (239) 395-6773 fax- (239) 395-6779
mobile- (239) 699-0468
web- http://www.fairtest.org
