Most sites are updated regularly.
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The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
(FairTest) works to end the misuses and flaws of
standardized testing and to ensure that evaluation
of students, teachers and schools is fair, open,
valid and educationally beneficial.
http://www.Fairtest.org/ |
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Susan Ohanian’s huge and useful collection of
stuff, news stories, commentary,
http://susanohanian.org/ |
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Critical and dependable independent analyses of
research and policy documents,
http://nochildleft.com
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Rethinking Schools, an independent,
progressive quarterly periodical,
http://www.rethinkingschools.org |
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Harvard Civil Rights Project:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights |
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Education Policy Research Unit,
(EPRU ) Arizona State Univ. Independent analyses of
research and policy documents in areas such as
student performance standards, assessment, and
curriculum. EPRU disseminates its reports, analyses
and other documents to policy makers, educators and
the public.
http://www.educationanalysis.org/
OR
http://www.edpolicylab.org |
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The Forum for Democracy and Education
Educators working to develop a national network of
academics and activists working for fundamental
changes in assessment methods and policies.
http://www.forumforeducation.org
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Applied Research Center:
Progressive, dependable, focus on race and public
policy including testing
www.arc.org
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NCLBgrassroots.org A
website tracking news articles from every state on
the No Child Left Behind Act and monitoring how
communities are faring under the law.
http://nclbgrassroots.org |
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National Council of Teachers of English
www.ncte.org
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National Education Association’s (NEA) updates on
the national lawsuit, Pontiac v. Spellings, also a
useful tool for sending letters to Bush and
Congress
http://www.nea.org/lawsuit/index.html |
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The Florida Coalition for Assessment Reform, Inc.
has a web site that's updated weekly. Their work
isn't national in scope, but includes a weekly
newsletter and archives of F-TREND, Florida Test
Reform Email News Digest, now in its third volume.
http://www.fcar.info |
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http://www.RougeForum.org/,
includes articles on public policy from a left
perspective including testing. Also Rich Gibson's
Education Page For a Democratic Society has
extensive resources on California ‘s tests, the
Michigan MEAP, and testing in general
http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson |
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Site includes useful pieces on testing
go to
CalCARE.org
and try
educationanddemocracy.org |