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High Stakes Testing—On the Web


The National Center for Fair and Open Testing
www.fairtest.org

This advocacy organization site provides information, technical assistance and advocacy on a broad range of testing concerns, focusing on three areas: K-12, university admissions, and employment tests.

Alfie Kohn's Standards & Testing Web Page
http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards/standards.htm
Testing advocate Alfie Kohn discusses "Rescuing Our Schools from Tougher Standards" and links to information regarding the "why, how, whom, where" of testing.

NCREL – The North Central Regional Educational Laboratory
www.ncrel.org

NCREL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that in conjunction with its Web site provides research-based expertise, resources, assistance, and professional development opportunities for teachers, administrators, and policymakers.

NEA – National Education Association – Accountability/Testing Page
http://www.nea.org/accountability/index.html
This site provides information and resources from NEA regarding accountability and testing.

Students Against Testing (SAT)
http://www.nomoretests.com
This student advocacy site provides resources for a nationwide network of young people who resist high stakes standardized testing and support real-life learning.

Susan Ohanian.org
http://www.susanohanian.org
Winner of the 2003 NCTE George Orwell Award for Distinguished Contribution to Honesty and Clarity in Public Language, this site offers news, opinion, and cartoons on standards and high stakes testing. There is a section on what the host calls NCLB Atrocities. The site has a search function.

Tech Connect Column
http://www.ncte.org/middle/teaching/107110.htm
"Raising a Different Standard: Rallying against High-Stakes Testing." Voices from the Middle, September 2002.



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