The National Center for Fair & Open Testing
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.
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Testing Reform Anniversary!
Seasons Greetings to you and your loved ones.
Here at FairTest, we are already looking beyond the upcoming holidays to 2010, our organization's 25th Anniversary.
In the two and a half decades since leaders of the country's civil rights, education reform, student and feminist organizations founded the National Center for Fair & Open Testing, we have faced incredible challenges and opportunities. Despite the power of the testing industry and the politicians who blindly support it, we have built a track record of success...
FairTest Examiner Newsletter
The November 2009 FairTest Newsletter is avaiable online now. If you haven't subscribed for the free email newsletter please click the link at the top of the page to do so.
"Empowering Schools and Improving Learning" Released
The Forum on Educational Accountability, chaired by FairTest, has released Empowering Schools and Improving Learning, signed by 84 national education, civil rights, religious, disability, parent and civic organizations. It calls for a thorough overhaul of NCLB.FairTest comments on US Education Department's "Race to the Top Fund" Guidelines.
FairTest says "Race to the Top" funding guidelines need to be thoroughly overhauled, are inconsistent with President Obama positions, and will worsen NCLB testing consequences.