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Time Out From Testing has archived the following articles in 2008.

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7-3-08Debate For Washington's Superintendent: Dorn Wants WASL ReplacedABC News
5-28-08TOFT WINS BIG VICTORY!: Rollback Set in Schooling of The GiftedNY Sun
5-28-08 Tests 'damaging' to school systemBBC News
5-28-08An Initiative on Reading Is Rated IneffectiveNew York Times
4-27-08Science Teachers Refuses to give State TestSeattle
4-27-08Love of learning lost as students, schools focus on passing testsToledo Blade
4-6-08Graduation tests will harm studentsBaltimore Sun
4-6-08Gifted test to be used to identify slow learners, tooThe Daily News
4-6-08States’ Data Obscure How Few Finish High SchoolNew York Times
3-18-08Mayor Boosts Career Schools, Standards for Eighth-GradersNY Sun
3-18-08New report bears bad news about arts educationInsideSchools.org
3-18-08Column - Michael Stevens: TAKS beat down everyone's moraleAmarillo Globe News
3-18-08To boost scores: FCAT transparencyDaytona Beach News-Journal Editorial
3-18-08Mayoral control of schools needs more limits -- Great letter from Assemblyman WeprinTimes Ledger
3-18-08Heated debate at New School discussion of city schools controlNY Daily News
3-2-08City To Revise Report Cards on the SchoolsThe New York Sun
3-2-08Event Will Highlight Rising High School Dropout RateThe New York Sun
3-2-08School Budget Cuts Prompt Calls for Sliced BureaucracyThe New York Sun
3-2-08Teachers see bias in school rankingDaily News
3-2-08Budget Cuts Raise Wrath of PrincipalsNew York Times
3-2-08Crayons Down!Truth Out.org
3-2-08Voice of the PeopleThe Daily News
3-2-08If I Had the Clout of High-Stakes Testing...The Huffington Post
1-27-08O.L.S.A.T & E.R.B.By Isabelle Raposo, Grade 5, MA
1-27-08To the Editor, Re: BoycottSent to New York Times
1-27-08Does this signify meaningful changes in Florida?The St. Petersburg Times
1-27-08New York Measuring Teachers by Test ScoresNew York Times
1-21-08Leaving “No Child Left Behind” Behind [open as PDF]via Prospect.org
1-21-08How Test Companies Fail Your Kids [open as PDF]via Bloomberg.com
1-21-08States Struggle to Computerize School RecordsThe New York Times
1-21-08Stakes are too high for schoolchildren - Letter to the EditorThe Riverdale Press
1-21-08Proposing ProgressThe Stuyvesant Spectator
1-21-08** PRESS RELEASE ** - PA Gotbaum, Parents: Too Many Tests To LearnThe Public Advocate's Office
1-21-08** PRESS RELEASE ** - PA Gotbaum: $335 Million on Standardized Tests is the Wrong AnswerThe Public Advocate's Office
1-21-08'Laundromat Tour' Pushed School RatingsThe New York Sun
1-21-08Klein, Weprin butt heads at PS 46Times Ledger
1-21-08State to Audit No-Bid Award of City’s School ContractsThe New York Times
1-21-08Educrats' $38M sweet tech dealThe Daily News
1-12-08Resorting to CheatingThe NY Sun
1-12-08Pol Takes Klein To Task On TestingQueens Chronicle
1-5-08Education job titles stump parentsDaily News

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"Keeping Accountability Systems Accountable,"
Martha Foote, Jan. 2007

Schools Cut Back Subjects to Push Reading and Math
Sam Dillon, New York Times

As Test-Taking Grows, Test-Makers Grow Rarer
David M. Herszenhorn, New York Times

Principals Face Review in Education Overhaul
Elissa Gootman, New York Times

"No Child Left Behind: The Test"
Stan Karp, Rethinking Schools

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