Linda Polin, linda@pencilsdown.org
Gary Stager, gary@pencilsdown.org
Survey results from a variety of polling agencies:
Public Agenda, Phi Delta Kappan/Gallup, The Business Roundtable, American Association of School Administrators, Harris Interactive
http://www.ecs.org/clearinghouse/16/21/1621.htm
Legal Cases on High Stakes Testing
Shelley Mack, UC Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Spring 2000
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/sugarmans/HighStakes.htm
NEA http://www.nea.org/issues/high-stakes/
FairTest http://www.fairtest.org
Rethinking Schools www.rethinkingschools.org
Mathematically Sane http://www.mathematicallysane.com/analysis/highstakes.htm
NCTE http://www.ncte.org/resolutions/highstakes1999.html
Alfie Kohn http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards/standards.htm
EdSource http://www.edsource.org/
Rouge Forum http://www.pipeline.com/~rgibson/rouge_forum/
CalCare http://www.calcare.org/
Canadian Teachers Org. http://www.ctf-fce.ca/e/what/other/assessment/high-stakes.htm
Signatures for Students http://www.xsnrg.com/sfs/
Florida Coalition for Assessment Reform. http://www.angelfire.com/fl4/fcar
AZ Standards (Arizona) http://www.azstandards.org/
North Carolina Citizens for Democratic Schools http://www.geocities.com/nccds/
TASI (Illinois) http://www.district87.org/staff/goerlitzd/tasisat/about.htm
Student Coalition for Alternatives to the MCAS http://www.scam-mcas.org/
MassParents Page http://www.massparents.org/
Parents Against TAAS Testing http://www.TaasBlues.com/
News Interview: Lorrie Shepard. How to Fight a "Death Star"
NEA Today Online, January, 2001.
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0101/intervw.html
What Can Student Drawings Tell Us About High-Stakes Testing in Massachusetts? Anne Wheelock, Damian Bebell, and Walt Haney
http://wwwcsteep.bc.edu/drawoned/mcas/mcaspaper.html
How Wisconsin Parents Worked to Roll Back High Stakes Testing
FairTest Examiner, Summer 1999, pp. 10-11
http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards/wisconsin.htm
The Harmful Impact of the TAAS System of Testing in Texas: Beneath the Accountability Rhetoric. Linda McNeil & Angela Valenzuela http://www.law.harvard.edu/civilrights/conferences/testing98/drafts/mcneil_valenzuela.html
"High Stakes Tests: A Harsh Agenda for America's Children"
Remarks Prepared for U.S. Senator Paul D. Wellstone
Teachers College, Columbia University, March 31, 2000
http://www.senate.gov/~wellstone/On_the_Record/Speeches_Articles/columbia.htm
The Scarsdale, NY Revolt
http://www.dekalb.k12.ga.us/~vanderlyn/2000/news.standardized-tests.htm#2001-05-12
The Marin, CA Revolt
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2001/05/04/MN231705.DTL
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2001/04/29/MN209398.DTL
Greely, Colorado teacher refuses
http://www.alfiekohn.org/standards/boycotter.htm
High-Stakes Testing: Is it fair to students?
Ted Villaire, staff writer
Our Children, The National PTA Magazine
http://www.pta.org/pubs/featured/f5.htm
Rethinking Schools, Failing Our Kids: Why the Testing Craze Won't Fix Our Schools. Rethinking Schools: Milwaukee, WI, 2000. ISBN 0-942961-26-9
W. James Popham, Testing! Testing! What Every Parent Should Know About School Tests. Allyn & Bacon: Boston, 2000. ISBN 0-205-30595-4
National Research Council, High Stakes: Testing for Tracking, Promotion, and Graduation. National Academy Press: Washington DC, 1999. ISBN 0-309-06280-2
Deborah Meier (editor), Will Standards Save Public Education? Beacon Press: Boston, 2000.ISBN 0-8070-0441-3
Alfie Kohn, The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools. Heinemann: Boston, 2000. ISBN: 0325003254
Linda McNeil, Contradictions of School Reform : Educational Costs of Standardized Testing (Critical Social Thought). Routledge, 2000. ISBN: 0415920744
Susan Ohanian, One Size Fits Few : The Folly of Educational Standards.
Heinemann, 1999. ISBN: 0325001588
