HOT TOPICS

HIGH STAKES TESTING

• Standardized Testing, With Bill Evers Hoover Institution Research Fellow
• CIVIL RIGHTS ALERT, Testing: The Need and Dangers, From the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
• The Human Cost of Over-Reliance on Tests, Harvard Education Letter
• Accountability-Based Reform Should Lead to Better Teaching and Learning-Period, Harvard Education Letter
• The Center for Performance Assessment, a private educational organization, which helps individuals, school districts, and corporations achieve their educational objectives through assessment, accountability, and standards
• Test Usage Information Links, Large collection of links to sites with information on high stakes testing.
• Students Against Testing, Another collection of links to info.
• School Administrator Issue on High Stakes Testing, Will misguided test use doom the standards movement?
• Building Tests To Support Instruction and Accountability: A Guide for Policymakers, From the Commission on Instructionally Supportive Assessment of the NEA
• Fair Test's Response to the Federally Mandated Testing Plan
• The Truth About All Children Can Learn, Yes! And....
• Fair Test's Analysis of ESEA Bill
• President Bush's Leave No Child Behind Education Plan, entire text.
• High Stakes Testing and Economic Productivity
• The Harmful Impact of TAAS Testing System in Texas, From the Civil Rights Project, Harvard University
• Lessons for Parents from a Longtime—and Much-Traveled—Teacher Educator: An Interview with Lilian Katz, Katz sees testing as the most disturbing development in early childhood education!
• Media Guide, How to work with the press and media from Fair Test
• Contact Congress, How to contact your Senator or Representative
• The American Educational Research Association (AERA) Policy Statement on High Stakes Testing
• High Stakes Testing, NCTM, National Council of Teachers of Math position statement
• High Stakes Testing, Position statement of the International Reading Association
• Fixing the Race, From Education Week
• National Survey About High Stakes Testing, The five public opinion surveys included asked a variety of questions about testing in the public schools, ranging, for example, to whether there’s too much testing or too little, to how much importance standardized tests should have.

Pro-Standardized Testing Sites, the other side of the coin

• Achieve, Inc
• Educational Testing Service
• The College Board
• Kaplan
• Association of Test Publishers
• In Defense of Testing, Gregory Cizek, University of North Carolina
• Appropriate Use of High Stakes Tests in our Nation's Schools, APA (American Psychological Association)