High Stake Testing

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Join the critical conversation on edTPA
We’re pleased to announce that the summer issue of Rethinking Schools magazine features a special forum with three perspectives on edTPA, the high-stakes test for new teachers that is being piloted in teacher education programs around the country. We invite you to read the articles and join the critical conversation about edTPA in the comments section of this blog post.
A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again
A Time magazine cover enrages teachers — again-The title on the cover: "Rotten Apples." And it isn't referring to actual apples.
HuffPost - Breaking News, U.S. and World News
Texas Rethinking Its Testing, Curriculum Standards In Education Overhaul By WILL WEISSERT 04/12/13, But the state now appears ready to step back from the strenuous accountability policies it has long been a national leader in championing, amid fears that youngsters are being forced to take too many high-stakes tests and that too many might drop out because of higher expectations. A number of other states are also considering pulling back. The Texas House has approved 145-2 an education...
Resolution on Mandatory Grade Retention and High-Stakes Testing
NCTE's Resolution on Mandatory Grade Retention and High-Stakes Testing
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The Fight For Public Education The pin I chose is "The Fight For Public Education".picture of a kid "your numbers will never know how much i know" good statement about testing
Emphasis On Testing Cheats Everyone
High stakes testing throughout a child's school years don't promote factors leading to real lifetime success.
The Fight Against High-Stakes Testing: A Civil Rights Movement
Teacher and author Jesse Hagopian talks about the fight against high-stakes testing.
Study Links High Stakes Testing to Higher Incarceration Rates
he School-to-Prison Pipeline Exposed, a new study that's thus far received very little attention, has revealed that in states that use high-stakes exit exams, students who fail these tests were more than 12 percent more likely to face incarceration and had lower graduation rates than states without exit exams. Meanwhile, the study found no consistent effects of exit exams on employment or the distribution of wages.
Why I'm pulling my kids out of public school (video)
VERY good article on what high stakes testing,Common Core, and teacher evaluation and pay are doing to education. "Why I'm pulling my kids out of public school" by lynnerigby.com
Rethinking Assessment
Rethinking Assessment | "By imposing upon schools and teachers unrealistic, meaningless, and arbitrary goals, high-stakes testing has corrupted the spirit of American education, intoxicated the education environment, and demoralized educators."
High Stakes Testing and Student Success
This discussion examines the role of high-stakes standardized testing and its relationship to student success is discussed. Some key points discussed: *leaving out gifted and talented students *Not meeting the needs of special needs students *The effects of teaching to the test both positive and negative results.
Standardized High-Stakes Testing: Not the Only Issue with the Common Core
Standardized High-Stakes Testing: Not the Only Issue with the Common Core
Fiddling With Schools While Our Nation Burns
Attacking teacher unions and tenure, high stakes testing, NCLB, Race to the Top, Common Core, charter schools... all these things are just fiddling around while civil society burns....