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By Valerie Strauss April 24, 2012

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A national resolution protesting high-stakes standardized testing was
released Tuesday by a coalition of national education, civil rights and
parents groups, as well as educators who are trying to build a broad-based
movement against the Obama administration’s test-centric school reform
program.
This is the latest in a series of recent initiatives taken around the country by
academics, educators, parents and others to protest the use of student

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standardized test scores for high-stakes decisions, including teacher and
principal evaluation, student grade promotion and high school graduation.
The high-stakes testing era started with the advent of No Child Left Behind in
2002, and though NCLB has largely been discredited, the Obama
administration’s policies have expanded the use of test scores as assessment
tools not only for students, but also for teachers and principals.
Many researchers in the assessment field have warned against using
standardized test scores for high-stakes decisions, saying they are unreliable
for such a purpose. High-stakes standardized testing, they say, has led to the
narrowing of the curriculum; classrooms where “teaching to the test” is
paramount; and unfair evaluation of students, teachers, principals and
schools.
The resolution (see text below) is modeled on one passed in recent months by

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more than 360 school boards in Texas, where the Republican state education
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quality education should be, and calling “the assessment and accountability
regime” not only “a cottage industry but a military-industrial complex.”
The organizers want organizations and individuals to endorse the resolution,

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which asks officials in every state to “reexamine public school accountability
systems” and to “develop a system based on multiple forms of assessment
which does not require extensive standardized testing” and “more accurately
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The resolution also calls on Congress and the Obama administration to
rewrite the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, the federal education
law known in its current form as No Child Left Behind, in a way that reduces
the mandate for standardized tests, promotes multiple forms of evidence
that students are learning and does not mandate that student test scores be
used to evaluate educators.

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“Parents are fed up with constant testing,” Pamela Grundy, of Parents Across
America, was quoted as saying in a statement. She helped lead a community
revolt against expanding testing in Charlotte, N.C., last year. “We want our
elected leaders to support real learning, not endless evaluation,” she said.
The national resolution was written by Advancement Project; Asian
American Legal Defense and Education Fund; FairTest; Forum for
Education and Democracy; MecklenburgACTS; Deborah Meier; NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc.; National Education Association;

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New York Performance Standards Consortium; Tracy Novick; Parents
Across America; Parents United for Responsible Education - Chicago; Diane
Ravitch; Race to Nowhere; Time Out From Testing; and United Church of
Christ Justice and Witness Ministries.
Already a number of other organizations and individuals from around the
country have signed on to the resolution.
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WHEREAS, our nation’s school systems have been spending growing
amounts of time, money and energy on high-stakes standardized testing, in
which student performance on standardized tests is used to make major
decisions affecting individual students, educators and schools; and
WHEREAS, the over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in state

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considerable collateral damage in too many schools, including narrowing
the curriculum, teaching to the test, reducing love of learning, pushing
students out of school, driving excellent teachers out of the profession, and
undermining school climate; and
WHEREAS, high-stakes standardized testing has negative effects for
students from all backgrounds, and especially for low-income students,
English language learners, children of color, and those with disabilities;
and
WHEREAS, the culture and structure of the systems in which students learn
must change in order to foster engaging school experiences that promote
joy in learning, depth of thought and breadth of knowledge for students;
therefore be it
RESOLVED, that [your organization name] calls on the governor, state
legislature and state education boards and administrators to reexamine
public school accountability systems in this state, and to develop a system
based on multiple forms of assessment which does not require extensive
standardized testing, more accurately reflects the broad range of student
learning, and is used to support students and improve schools; and
RESOLVED, that [your organization name] calls on the U.S. Congress and
Administration to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act,
currently known as the “No Child Left Behind Act,” reduce the testing
mandates, promote multiple forms of evidence of student learning and
school quality in accountability, and not mandate any fixed role for the use
of student test scores in evaluating educators.
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