Defining Quality in Education



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If you want your voice heard: Know the facts about testing Defend your teachers and schools through editorials, commentaries, letters, articles, and other mass media outlets. Write a "thank you" letter to your favorite teacher. Send email: president@whitehouse.gov first.lady@whitehouse.gov vice.president@whitehouse.gov mrs.cheney@whitehouse.gov Contact your representatives in Congress. Write editorials, commentaries, and letters to the editor. Organize a demonstration in your area against high-stakes testing and invite the local media. Begin a petition seeking an end to high-stakes testing in your school district or state. Links The National Center for Fair & Open Testing Students Against Testing Rethinking Schools Alfie Kohn Website Test Opt-Out Form Contact: dwakefield @ berry.edu	Resources: The Case Against Standardized Testing Alfie Kohn Standardized Minds Peter Sacks Contradictions of School Reform Linda McNeil The Disciplined Mind Howard Gardner High Stakes National Research Council One Size Fits Few Susan Ohanian The Way We Were? Richard Rothstein Testing to Learn - Learning to Test Joanne Capper Gender and Fair Assessment Warren Willingham and Nancy Cole Testing! What Every Parent Should Know About School Tests James Popham Non of the Above David Owen and Marilyn Doerr * * * Defining Quality in Education - Shall We Remain Silent? - PowerPoint Presentation Just Say No to High-Stakes Testing - Citizenship and Teacher Education - PowerPoint Presentation * * * HOME