Against MCAS
& Other High-Stakes Tests --
and the Federal No Child Left Behind Act,
which makes them even worse

• Bush and Kerry Both Wrong on Education
• Back to School Food, Tests, and Propaganda
• Leaving Children Behind Locally

• Waiting for Military Recruitment Clarification....
• Teaching Justice
• School Committee Diploma Delay
• School Committee May Do (Some of) the Right Thing
• Diplomas, Licenses, and Bar Mitzvahs

• Will the Brookline School Committee Escalate MCAS Opposition?
• Update: Corporate Interest in High-Stakes Testing
• Latest MCAS Report No Surprise
• Schools Hide MCAS Opt-out Policy
• Dull Dem Debate Dims Distinctions
• My Daughter's Education [personal essay]

2001

• Against MCAS, Now More Than Ever
• Corporate-Sponsored Tests Aim to Standardize Our Kids A 2002/2003 Top-25 Censored Story!

2000

• MCAS opposition: Another year
  • State efforts to salvage the high-stakes test matched by growing opposition
• The corporate MCAS agenda
  • Why corporations work so hard to impose high stakes testing
• Urban-suburban MCAS opposition
  • Anti-MCAS movement embraces justice agenda
• Power in high places
  • School Committee Chairperson cuts off debate
• The MCAS boycott-support workshops and beyond
  • High school students grapple with direct action options
• MCAS boycotters one, School Committee less than zero
  • School Committee hides from MCAS boycott; students boycott anyway
• Anti-MCAS momentum
  • Statewide test boycott growing, but town position remains ambiguous
• Kill MCAS--before it's too late
  • Boycott ill-conceived standardized test required for HS diploma

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Article

Radical Dilemmas in the Anti-High-Stakes-Testing Movement (2001)

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Links

• FairTest (national anti-testing group that sponsors CARE)
• CARE (primary anti-MCAS group, mostly Massachusetts; lots of good links; focus on education and legislative action).
• ARN: Assessment Reform Network (national network also sponsored by FairTest).
• Children Left Behind: A Documentary about High Stakes Testing -- 2009 film by Louis Kruger at Northeastern University's Department of Counseling and Applied Educational Psychology
• Students Against Testing
• Student Coalition for Alternatives to MCAS (SCAM--primary student anti-MCAS organization)
• Alfie Kohn Education, Inc: Turning Learning into a Business (with Pat Shannon)
• Susan Ohanian: What Happened to Recess and Why are our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?
• Academic critique of hig-stakes testing
• MassParents (activist anti-MCAS group; organizers of Call to Resist MCAS by Committee of 100 Concerned parents--Asking parents to refuse to let children take MCAS
• MassRefusal (organizers of Call for MassRefusal, asking teachers to refuse to administer MCAS
  • Endorsed by teacher union local presidents (I maintain this website)
  • Email list organized through New Democracy (below)
• New Democracy (group that proposed the MassRefusal campaign)
• School Reform and the Attack on Public Education, Dave Stratman
• Reading Between the Lines, Stephen Metcalf, The Nation 1/28/02
• Goals 2000: What's in a Name? Susan Ohanian
• Commercialism in Education Research Unit
• Rouge Forum News Summer 2002 issue (articles on corporate capitalism's interest in testing)
• My Links Page:
  • education/activism sites
  • corporate power

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